Carlo Schmid (Swiss pilot)

Carlo Schmid ( born January 25, 1990 in Thalwil; homeland justified in Wittnau ) is a Swiss pilot.

He is the owner of the glider and private pilot's license.

World Record

The trained bank employees completed the age of 22 years than in the past recent pilot a solo flight around the world. Takeoff and landing his single-engine Cessna 210 with the air vehicle registration HB- RTW made ​​on July 11 and September 29, 2012 at the military airfield Dübendorf.

The flight was along the route Dübendorf - Vienna - Corfu - Heraklion - Alexandria - Medina - Riyadh - Muscat - Karachi - Ahmedabad - Nagpur - Calcutta - Chiang Mai - Udon Thani - Nha Trang - Subic - Laoag City - Taipei - Nagasaki - Osaka - Sapporo - Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk - Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky - Anadyr - Nome ( Alaska ) - Anchorage - Juneau - Comox (British Columbia) - Boise - Denver - Saint Joseph (Missouri ) - Indianapolis - Teterboro - Quebec - CFB Goose Bay - Narsarsuaq - Reykjavík - Vágar - Prestwick - Manchester - Hamburg - Dübendorf. When landing at Dübendorf aircraft was escorted by the military aerobatic team of PC - 7 Team.

Carlo Schmid undercut so that the previous age record set by the Jamaican Barrington Irving. With the world tour, an amount of CHF 50,000 for the benefit of UNICEF could be collected.