At the beginning of 1916, after he was wounded during an air battle (when after an explosion near the airplane he went deaf in the left ear), he was promoted to the post of flight-teacher in the most important military-pilot school in the Monarchy in the Wiener Neustadt.
Od 1916. nakon ranjavanja prilikom borbenog leta (kada je nakon eksplozije granate pored aviona, oglušio na lijevo uho), postavljen je za učitelja letenja u najznačajnijoj vojno-pilotskoj školi Monarhije u Bečkome Novome Mjestu.