The Eagles Flight Team is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's flight team at the Daytona Beach campus. We compete against colleges and universities throughout the country as part of the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA). For more information, feel free to visit the About us page.
We do not provide flight training for any certificate or rating. However, all of your flights as part of the team are earned and can be logged.
Dues are $50 per semester. All other expenses are paid for by the university.
No, you don't. We welcome students of all studies to join us. The only requirements are a dedicated heart and a passion for aviation.
Apart from the incredible amount of knowledge that you'd learn here, being a flight team member means that you have the privilege to fly the Cessna 150 and 172 during practice for free. Also, due to our specific practice schedule, the university also allows all team members to have priority registration. This means that you get to register for classes before everyone else does! Feel free to talk to us to learn more about the perks of being a Flight Team member.
We hold a four-week tryout process starting the week after the Mass Briefing info sessions. Throughout these four weeks, you will practice with the team members to learn all the necessary knowledge and experience what it is like to be a flight team member. Depending on the events that you participate in, there will usually be a test given out each week to assess your progress.
The tryout period will be concluded with an interview to let us know more about you in person. After that, based on your overall performance and other criteria, you will be notified of the decision within several days.
The Mass Briefing info sessions are during the first week of fall semester classes. For more information about the tryout process, please email eft@erau.edu.
We practice every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night for the ground events. As for the Flight events, we meet every Saturday morning to go to the Massey Ranch Airpark (X50) to practice landings and Message Drop.
Please email eft@erau.edu. (We check the email every day!)