Alpha Eta Rho/Flight Team members

[FlyingBuckI]

I searched for threads on this, but they're a bit outdated.

How many of you guys are actives/alumni of AHP? I joined EPchapter (Riddle) back in 99 and I'm currently chapter president at OhioState.

Any others out there?
Flight teamers?

 

[troy]

I joined when they opened a new charter at SDSU (BKX) but havent done anything with them as of yet (2 years ago) Don't have time to play frat boy.(married and living in FSD)

 

[Slye]

Peppy, give me a call sometime. I hope the cheese log is doing well!

 

[FlyingBuckI]

hahah you dirty wh*re. I hope UPT is treating you well. We'll have to hook up when you get done in July.

 

[IfIHadABoat]

AHP and NIFA

I was president of RHO at the University of Illinois for the last year and a half. I just passed it on to another guy. I was also captain of U of I's flying team last semester and am now coaching. Good times.

Boat

 

[Illini Pilot]

Current AHP and Flying Team member at University of Illinois...lookingforward to Salina this spring, hopefully i can better my 2nd placefinish in SCAN at last year's nationals

 

[FlyingBuckI]

Sorry, I thought you said you were looking FOREWARD to salina...

This will be my first competition @ nationals, so we'll see how itgoes. Hoping to get a spot for sim/ifr/crm and whatever else Ican work into my schedule.

PM me before heading down and maybe we can meet up in salina

 

[GOCUBS]

Sigma chapter Vice Pres. myself...1985.

To me it seems like it was yesterday when I was pledging. It goes
fast. A lot of the people in your chapter will be life long friends.
Have fun.

Cheers,

JV.

 

[nipopolis]

AHP Auburn 89-90. Yes, I'm old.

 

[jjetpilot]

The flight team though, whata buncha dorks -------

You can say that again........LOL

 

[CWASaab]

Delta Chapter. (UND)
Served as Associate Vice President ('96).
Also brought the Delta chapter to the web as the chapter's first webmaster during the 95-96 school year.

And, no I was not on the flying team. Not that there's anything wrong with that, really, nothing wrong with it at all.

 

[Propsync]

And, no I was not on the flying team. Not that there's anything wrong with that, really, nothing wrong with it at all.

Right. That flight team was a bunch of freaks. Successful freaks, they won a lot, but still freaks. I had the pleasure of competing with them for three years on the regional level. Yikes. They all walked together in a herd, never spoke to anyone else, and they all had a Jane's book or a FAR/AIM in their hand. It was like they were learning by osmosis. Everyone else just showed up and 'run what you brung'. I met a lot of people from other schools that were just normal people that liked the competition, but were not on a hellbent mission to be pilot robots. The only guy I think I ever talked to just did that aircraft recognition event (pictures). I think his name was Mike, I also think he ended up at Cirrus. Anyway, he was the only one of those clowns that had any sort of personality at all. I don't know if the team was either not allowed to talk or they really were that much better than everyone else.

Some of you posters are right, they are a bunch of dorks. Take Illini Pilot for instance. Nobody cares at an airline interview that you placed second or first in any event. Lighten up, or memorize the FAR/AIM and aircraft performance numbers, we don't care. Many of us just liked to compete or get cheap (or free) flight time. It was fun to travel places on the University's dime. I could have cared less if I finished first or fiftieth.

BTW AHP president for a few seasons 94-97 Upsilon Delta (UD, how original). Those were good times, too. Much backpeddling at the Dean's office over initiation issues. A few good parties, too.

 

[flyer172r]

Treasurer of the Beta Chapter (Purdue) for a couple years, still active there until graduation.

Member of the Flight Team too, definitely not as serious about it as UND or ERAU, but we have a lot more fun and meet a lot of great people. The flight time is awesome and the competitions are fun, even if some people do nothing but stare at Jane's books all day. Ask someone from Lewis U. about the fun we have at regionals. I'll see you guys in Salinas, I'll be the guy whose a$$ will be sore for three days from the 10 hour C150 flight out there.

 

[FlyingBuckI]

OSU takes flight team very seriously as well (practice every saturday at 9am, plus separate event practices m-th night)...but....as president of AHP @ ohio state, I have to say that the flight team parties better than AHP. sad, but true. AHP here has initiated some members who feel that we should be a strictly 'professional' organization...bleh.

flyer172r, as far as your "long" flight goes...we have you beat by a few miles! flying a 150 that far is painful...not because of the time spent, but because you realize just how slow you're moving into the wind!

 

[Illini Pilot]

Right. That flight team was a bunch of freaks. Successful freaks, they won a lot, but still freaks. I had the pleasure of competing with them for three years on the regional level. Yikes. They all walked together in a herd, never spoke to anyone else, and they all had a Jane's book or a FAR/AIM in their hand. It was like they were learning by osmosis. Everyone else just showed up and 'run what you brung'. I met a lot of people from other schools that were just normal people that liked the competition, but were not on a hellbent mission to be pilot robots. The only guy I think I ever talked to just did that aircraft recognition event (pictures). I think his name was Mike, I also think he ended up at Cirrus. Anyway, he was the only one of those clowns that had any sort of personality at all. I don't know if the team was either not allowed to talk or they really were that much better than everyone else.

Some of you posters are right, they are a bunch of dorks. Take Illini Pilot for instance. Nobody cares at an airline interview that you placed second or first in any event. Lighten up, or memorize the FAR/AIM and aircraft performance numbers, we don't care. Many of us just liked to compete or get cheap (or free) flight time. It was fun to travel places on the University's dime. I could have cared less if I finished first or fiftieth.

BTW AHP president for a few seasons 94-97 Upsilon Delta (UD, how original). Those were good times, too. Much backpeddling at the Dean's office over initiation issues. A few good parties, too.

yo dude, lighten up, im just there to have a little fun...i got second probably out of sheer luck, i was just joking around when i said im out to improve that. actually, i study some, but its way to stressful to sit there for hours...i think it burns you out. just gotta go in there and enjoy it, seems like most people are in there to purposely inflict emotional distress on themselves. im there just to hang out with some of my friends in a small, cramped hotel room without alcohol for a week and going to burger king and applebees everyday.

 

[Illini Pilot]

yo dude, lighten up, im just there to have a little fun...i got second probably out of sheer luck, i was just joking around when i said im out to improve that. actually, i study some, but its way to stressful to sit there for hours...i think it burns you out. just gotta go in there and enjoy it, seems like most people are in there to purposely inflict emotional distress on themselves. im there just to hang out with some of my friends in a small, cramped hotel room without alcohol for a week and going to burger king and applebees everyday.

oh yea, pulling pranks on Purdue is fun too

 

[BoilerUP]

Hope ya'll U of I kids had fun with the Saran Wrap and Vaseline on your van up in UND. Not that I had anything to do with that or anything...

I was the Captain of the Purdue Flight Team this past year in Champaign, and I have halfway relinquished my role to flyer172r while I am on co-op. Placing Power-Offs (barely) and Aircraft Rec (5th). Shouldn't have any problem competing in Salina though (yay for being a last-semester senior!). My arse won't hurt quite as bad, as I plan on coming out in a Seneca or a Twinkie.

Former Vice Prez and Air Marshall of the Purdue Beta Chapter of AHP, and I helped get the chapter reorganized back in 2002 after a 5 or 6 year hiatis. Currently inactive but in good standing, because of said co-op.

...yeah, we're nerds and dorks, us AHP and Flight Team members. But I've made good friends, and gotten a decent chunk of my flight time subsidized by the university. That's hard to beat. Besides, we at Purdue are too concerned with playing Euchre or poker or practical jokes on each other to walk in lock-step like our colleagues at UND, ERAU and SIU. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

[potrack]

Flight Teams??

Aren't you the guys who wear flight suits, kneeboards, and raybans?

and...don't you fly 172s? Try to swagger around like your an F-15 pilot?

yep, dorks------don't matter how hard you party.....dorks

 

[Nostromo]

The flight team... what a buncha dorks...

Talk about dorks, you've got a picture of yourself as the avatar and use the word 'stud' in your description. Look in the mirror!

 

[DGdaPilot]

Ignorant remarks aside, I'm lookin forward to Salina. This is my 4th year on the team and my 2nd as a captain with SIU. Region VIII rocks, right guys?

The only thing that's starting to wear on me is the amount of practice we put in: about 6 or 8 weeks of 4 days a week, 1.5-6 hours per day.

I must say, I know flight team won't get me that job. But I have learned a hell of a lot from it....about myself and my limits. People will knock it, but I've had a great 4 years, in and outside of the team.

See all of ya at SUK, I mean...KSU.