My decision to become an Aeromedical Examiner is primarily to help those who love to fly to achieve and protect their dreams.

My name is Klara Sekyrova and a predominant part of my childhood memories belong to the Aeroclub, Krnov, which was and still is my second home and where my father and grandfather took me almost every weekend as a child. I was often fortunate on these weekends as members of the Aeroclub would often take me as a passenger on site seeing flights. Our family has deep roots in aviation. My grand uncle was a military pilot, my grandfather flew from the Aeroclub with a glider pilot named Orlik, and my grandfather in turn taught my father to love flying. My father became President of the Aeroclub and he in turn passed the love of flying on to me, “to love the air”.

Anyone who has ever become a member of the Aeroclub knows they have to work very hard to do so to earn “their place in the sun”. As a young girl I worked to help pilots in assembling gliders, holding wings during takeoff, measuring the time etc., and in return as a reward for my efforts and work well done a club member would take me in flight up above the clouds and slowly but surely my love for wings and flying began to grow.

This is the reason why, and not surprisingly so, that I decided to earn my Glider Pilots licence at the young age of fourteen. Subsequently, I joined a team of gliders flying cross country flights in their one seaters and further decided, in my youthful imprudence, to complete basic Skydiving training. On reaching the age to do so my dream from the very beginning of this journey came true, to fly a single-engine ZLIN-143 plane.

As fate would have it, I decided to study Medicine and after graduation I practiced for several years at the General University Hospital in Prague and the University Hospital in Motol. I was certified as a Paediatrician, and as such I not only enjoyed this work as a Paediatrician but the on hands practical work gave me a depth of experience and education the result of which pushed me forward in this field of Medicine.

In conjunction, the love of flying never left me, Medicine did not overshadow it, but the two meshed seamlessly together, one to the other. Therefore, becoming an Aeromedical Examiner is the solution for me, a long time in the making, to be involved in both Flying and Medicine simultaneously, but most importantly to help those sky lovers as I do and to help them achieve and protect their dreams.