Other Benefits of Being a YJFCer

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 quarter 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 other colleges, to flying events such as spot landing contests, and 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...I get to, because I 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 our 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!