With more than 66,000 seats inside Lane Stadium, people come from all over the state, even from around the country, to watch the Hokies play.
If you've driven anywhere near Blacksburg on game day, you know traffic can be a nightmare.
But a few lucky fans get to fly high above all those cars.
The group has taken "making an entrance" to a whole new level.
“I really don’t know a better way to come to games,” says John Lawson.
For every home, and most away, games, John Lawson shuttles 10 of his closest family and friends to the stadium by private jet.
“I can't remember when the last time was I missed a game. I think I've made almost all of them,” Lawson said.
The Lawsons have a long history as Hokies, as do most of the people who pack the Virginia Tech-Montgomery Executive Airport on game days.
“I went to school here and I learned to fly here in 1958 and been flying ever since,” said Bill Laine of Smithfield.
For pilots like Laine, flying is a hobby turned passion that definitely comes with its perks.
“It's nice and quiet and comfortable, and you don't have to dodge other traffic on the road. Oh it's much nicer, much smoother,” Laine says.
But helicopter Barry Knight says there is some other traffic you have to keep your eye out for in the sky.
“Buzzards. Have to duck a buzzard once in a while and you're OK,” Knight said.
Buzzards aside, getting a birds-eye view of Lane Stadium is a whole different way to experience game day.
"We always do a circle around Lane stadium when we come and go," Lawson said. "It's just so pretty. Flying is so so pretty."
Virginia Tech's airport is its busiest on game days. If you take a break from your tailgate and look up over Blacksburg on nice days, there will be a line of planes waiting to land.
