Hi Karl,
Yes he had a pilot licence but having said that I do not intend to claim that he actually flew the Me262. As a matter of fact I simply do not know.
Interestingly enough he got shot down/wounded in the last days of WWII, was then captured by the US forces and send immediatly to Florida, USA, got there a bunch of surgeries (mostly to save his right eye) recovered until late summer of '45 and then was POW until early 1947, first in the USA then in Germany.
What puzzled me is that this very special treatment is somewhat unusual for a captured Luftwaffe Capt.
However his love and thankfulness toward the USA lead later to our immigration (my family and I life in Connecticut) he himself couldn't make it due to his untimely death (just a heart attack - yes, you could die from a heart attack in the 60s)