Happy anniversary, Phil!
On January 1, 2006, AOPA members, staff, and Board of Trustees celebrated Phil Boyer's fifteenth year as AOPA president. Boyer is only the third president in the association's 67-year history, following J.B. "Doc" Hartranft and John L. Baker.
"Phil brought a new approach to AOPA, and we think it only fitting that his tenure be honored with a new approach - a GPS approach, in fact," said Jeff Myers, AOPA executive vice president of communications.
So when the terminal procedure charts are updated in June, check the RNAV (GPS) RWY 5 approach to Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK), AOPA's home base. You'll see three new fix names - PHILB, DEFND, GEEAY.
"I can't think of anything more appropriate," said Myers, "since nobody defends general aviation like Phil Boyer!
"And Phil is a technology guy. He's done an awful lot to push GPS in his 15 years in AOPA's left seat."
In fact, the GPS 5 approach to Frederick was one of the very first GPS approaches commissioned, and Boyer flew then-FAA Administrator David Hinson on an inaugural approach in Boyer's Cessna 172. (For more on Boyer's term as AOPA president, click here.)
January 1, 2006
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