DAVID A. STRAHLE, M.D.

An avid pilot, Dr. Strahle has his commercial license, instrument rating, basic, advanced and instrument ground instructor’s license, flight instructor’s license, instrument flight instructor’s license, and his ratings include multi-engine and sea plane.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree is Aerospace Technology from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, where he was a flight instructor and director of the Air Force ROTC flight program at the university.

In 1969 he wrote a research paper describing the far reaching benefits of transmitting weather to airborne aircraft including the initial steps of implementation.  His paper won first place at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics research forum and his ideas were eventually published in Aero and Pilot magazines.

His Aerospace degree led to employment in the data processing division of IBM, which eventually led to a greater interest in computers and medicine.

He graduated from Michigan State University with his Medical Degree in 1981 and is currently President of Regional Medical Imaging in Flint, Michigan, one of a few leading centers in the United States in Fourth-Dimensional Breast MRI imaging.

Throughout the past 36 years, Dr. Strahle has continued to privately support and nurture the datalink programs and formats including presentations on the proper use of datalink NEXRAD weather.  His recent presentations include the Great Lakes International Aviation Conference in Lansing, Michigan, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and The Flying Physicians Association national conference held in Mystic, Connecticut, last year and in Toronto this year.