Ephrata CAP instructor honored for more than half a century of safety

EPHRATA — Roger Patry has logged more than 23,000 hours of flight time since 1970. That’s more than two and a half years of his life spent in the sky. “Look at … all the things he got to see and experience, from implementation of the Jet Age, space travel, navigation technology advances from radio navigation to satellite,” Federal Aviation Agency safety program manager Robert Tickner said.