Archived News 2007-2008

April 24, 2008 - Last weekend's trip to Nantucket was awesome. Pictures to come soon. Tonight we held our officer elections: Jim Smith is President, Cory Isabelle is Vice President also in charge of the treasury, Secretary is Andrew Pye also in charge of fundraising for the endowment and Dan Dugan is Safety Officer for the fourth consecutive year. Have a great summer everyone! See you all at our NRB event in August.

October 18, 2007 - The Fall 2007 RPI Fly-By will be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 10th and 11th. The cost is $10 for club members, and $20 for non-members. Registration will officially begin after tonight's meeting. The NYC field trip will be held on Saturday, December 1st (with December 8th as a backup date). On another note, our club has received approval to create a library of flight training related DVDs. We have ordered $300 in training DVDs yesterday, and expect to show our first training DVD at next week's meeting.

October 3, 2007 - I hope everyone had a good time on the trip this past weekend. If you enjoyed it, be sure to sign up for the NYC field trip later this semester (the best trip ever!) You can check out the trip pictures in the pictures archive. If anyone has a club headset, please bring it to the meeting this week so I can collect it. Don't forget, there is an AOPA Air Safety seminar on October 23; refer to the events page for more information.

September 14, 2007 - At last night's meeting, we reviewed general club information and then continued to collect signups for the club, ground school, and the first field trip. The ground school will begin on Sunday, September 23. It will meet every Sunday night from 6 to 9pm, and will last for approximately 12 weeks. The cost for club members is $290. If you wish to sign up but have not yet paid the fee, please email me ASAP so we can arrange a time to collect your payment. Also, if you signed up for the trip at last week's meeting but did not attend last night's meeting, please email me to confirm that you are still interested. Official trip reservations will be made at next week's meeting when we collect the trip fee. If you do not pay the trip fee ($45 for passengers, more for pilots) at next week's meeting, you will lose your seat on the trip, so be sure to attend the meeting!

August 29, 2007 - I have finally gotten around to updating the web site with pictures and videos from the last two field trips to Block Island and NYC (at night), as well as the Spring RPI Fly-By. Check them out in the pictures archive. Sorry for the delay in posting.

August 27, 2007 - Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had a good summer. Due to the activity fair this Thursday, we will not be holding a meeting this week. The first RAF meeting of the semester will be held next week on Thursday, September 6, in room 3602 of the student union. If you are interested in joining the club or signing up for this fall's ground school program, please be sure to attend this meeting. Free pizza and drinks will be provided.

August 22, 2007 - Today, the RAF sponsored the "Rensselaer Aviation Experience" for the incoming freshman class as part of Navigation Rensselaer & Beyond. We hope that everyone enjoyed the program, and we appreciate any positive/negative feedback so that we can improve the program for next year.

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