Getting Involved

Who can Join

The YJFC is open to Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff, and alumni. The spouses of those people are also eligible. Don't qualify? Click here for help finding a local flight school.

Social

Besides the daily availability of airplanes for your personal use, the Yellow Jacket Flying Club is also a social organization. Weekly meetings are a chance for you to meet other people here at school who obviously share your interest in aviation. General meetings often feature speakers from the aviation community, from flying gliders to getting a job with a major airline. Once a semester during spring, summer, and fall, we hold a "Fly-In" where we "take over" an airport in the Atlanta area and bring our planes, and usually several others. During this, our biggest social event of the quarter, we challenge each other, and sometimes members of flying clubs at other colleges, to flying events such as spot landing contests and water ballon drops. The best part? Anyone at all who shows up is guaranteed food, drinks, and airplane rides.

Leadership

The Yellow Jacket Flying Club is actually a Georgia-registered non-profit corporation. We have assets of more than $170,000 and annual receipts in excess of $110,000. Who runs this corporation? The members...that's you! Imagine getting out of school and saying that you have already been the CFO of an aviation corporation for three years...our alumni have! Our club is only able to operate because we act as a team, and everyone is expected to carry their load. One reason we are able to fly as cheaply as we do is because we don't pay someone else to do our accounting...we do it. If no one volunteers to wash the planes...they don't get washed.

Ownership

Have you ever thought that someday you'd like to own your own personal plane? How about if you could get the experience of owning your own plane, before you put down the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars necessary? As a member of the YJFC you ARE an airplane owner...along with a bunch of your friends, of course. We do some of our own maintenance where allowed--things such as routine oil and spark plug changes. We talk constantly about what the fixed and variable costs of owning and maintaining airplanes really are. There's no better way to see if owning an airplane is for you than trying it without the risk!

How to Join

Ready to join? The first step is to attend an Executive Committee meeting. There, you can expect to talk with the Vice President of membership about the club and what it involves to be member. If you still want to join after that, you'll need to attend the next Executive Committee meeting to turn in your dues ($25 per semester for student, and $40 for non-student) and membership application. Then you'll be voted in. If you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to contact our VP of membership by email at .

The membership application can be downloaded here. In order to sign the membership application, you will need to read these regulations.