#112 HOGS MEMBERS | Hangar While Flight Training With Us | The HOGS Hangar

All right. Day 112. Hell yeah. Wow. Did I just say that? I did. It's a Saturday. I'm normally at home, but it's a big day. We got Chip Dean coming in. He's been detailing cars and vehicles and airplanes for many, many years. He's detailed for me before in the past on autos. So I've got him coming today on a Saturday to do a detailed job on the instrument. Even though it still looks pretty good when you get up close to it. You know, it's been a while it's been cleaned and waxed, but it's been a little while since it's got a really good one. And so we're gonna bring him in, let him do a buff job, whatever he thinks is best to bring this thing back to a really beautiful shine. And Dr. Nick had mentioned he about get it painted. And I said, let's just see what my detail guy can do first. Maybe put off painting for another year or two. And he's like, yeah, cool, let's do that. Right? So excited to be here on a Saturday at the new HOGS hangar, Warsaw, Indiana. ASW is the identifier. People keep emailing me, hey, Kenny, what's the identifier? Where you at now? So there you go. It's ASW if you're looking for us and bringing it up on how far to fly. Excited because Holly Gardell, one of our helicopter land ground school instructors, she also came to me to do her CFI a few years ago on a scholarship from the Whirly Girls. And what a joy it was to train Holly Gardell. No chip on the shoulder. Talk about somebody who came in and just was so prepared when she showed up. And if I remember right, she didn't have any instrument time. So not only did she transition to the nstrom, we did her cfi. And we did it in less than two weeks. And we did it in less than two weeks because she showed up prepared. She worked her butt off before she came here to do her cfi. And I was completely amazed by Holly. I mean, she blew me away with her knowledge. And for a woman in a male dominated industry, you could expect maybe a little bit of attitude. And Holly not, not at all, not at all. And when I say attitude, just because I'm sure sometimes, you know, female pilots probably aren't always treated the best, I would guess. I've trained helicopter, female helicopter pilots, helicopter pilots over the years and I didn't treat them any different. I did anybody else, but I imagine they are up against some tough battles sometimes. But Holly didn't, wasn't like that. She didn't have a chip on her shoulder and what an amazing applicant to show up. And when she was doing her airspace presentation for me, she got, I just sat there and grinned, right. And when she was done, I'm like, oh my God, can I. Can you do that again and can I record it? And she's like, really? And I'm like, yeah. I go, that airspace was good. So we ended up using that. She ended up doing it for me again. And we recorded it and we used that in helicopter lane ground school. And she allowed me to use some of the videos that we did from the training. We filmed a lot of the. Mainly the autos is what we filmed when her and I were out flying in the fold down auto rotations and she allowed me to record us in the cockpit. And also we had external footage too. And those are some pretty good videos in the certified flight instructor section within helicopter land ground school. So Holly was a joy to train and now a close friend, right? I mean just. We've remained friends ever since. And I see her each year usually at heli expo. And when I announced this this week that we were at the new HOGS hangar and I said, hey, you know, if any HOGS members want to come up and train with us here at the Warsaw Municipal Airport in the new HOGS hangar, bring your personal aircraft up if you'd like. You can hang her with us here. And I think was within the first 24 hours. Holly's like, hey, I'm gonna be ferrying a helicopter from point A to point B and I think I'm gonna be pretty close to Warsaw. And she sent me the her cross country, you know, shot from the iPad and I'm like, man, you're gonna go right by. So depending on weather and stuff, the plan is for her to hang her here overnight while she's, while she's doing her ferry flight. And she's like, do you care if it's 10pm at night or after? I'm like, I don't care. I don't care what time of the night you come through. Holly, you're welcome anytime. I'll meet you anytime of the night, day or night. Because it just be fun to have within the first few days already have somebody that wants to stop by, stay all night. And of course I offered Hoffly. I'm like, man, you could stay at. We just, you know, we got our house now at the lake, 12 minutes from the Hangar, I got guest space. She's a good friend. She's like, well, I got a passenger. I go, heck, I don't care. I got air mattresses. You can stop, get a motel if you like. Stay with us. I don't care what time you come in. Even if it's a short, brief stay, stay overnight, get some fuel and have breakfast in the morning. And she's on her way. That'll still be awesome. It'll still be just cool. That my envision, or my envision, my vision was up hanger, a hogs hanger, where we could have our offices, have the helicopter inside. And if you watched the previous video from yesterday or the day before, having the pristine, clean, white, sanitary look, I flipping love it. I love it, love it, love it, love it, Absolutely love it. I mentioned the video yesterday. You know, I've been in helicopters 20 years, but when I got into the audio video part of it and launched ground school, I can remember back in the beginning seeing a hangar somewhere where they had a black helicopter all shined up and they had all white background, no debris on the background, no junk laying around the walls. And we have a photo of that already with the helicopter or the instrument over there in that corner. Just to give you an idea. So now we get this dude shined up, spit shine, polished, get this thing looking the best she's looked in years. And we're going to keep that clean, sanitary. Look in the hangar. No, no garbage is going to be left hanging along the walls. We're going to keep this place looking pristine. And I've moved some of the audio video equipment in, just a few things, but, you know, we're going to have already everything's going to be mobile. There'll be nothing stationary. You know, we're going to build some audio walls to help keep. Get rid of that echo, right? But we'll handle that. I'm pretty good with audio, so we'll figure all that out. So all of our monitors and any walls that we build will all be, you know, sound absorbing. So we'll get this echo down. So along with that and lapel mics or handheld mics and some audio walls we can move around. It's not gonna be no problem. When I was talking to Brian, he's like, dude, what about that echo that you'll get in the hangar? I'm like, any problem, man? I'll get that figured out. So kind of excited, you know, we'll start moving things in this week. Heather's got a helper. They're Gonna start moving stuff and I'm gonna have them bring things over and all start putting up and kind of setting up. You know, we got some different ideas, but you know, Heather was kind of excited that we're gonna keep the same setup that we have. But we were very limited with space that we had before. And you know, when you're limited with space in your office, you're cramped and you, you know, we had to build everything overhead and I never could get the lighting that I really wanted because the lights I use, you'd have to get too high and the ceiling wouldn't allow us to do it. So having this is huge because we can set the lighting as high as we need to. And again, everything will be mobile so that I can move things around. Not going to bolt anything or build anything. It'll all be mobile. Walls, audio and some really fun stuff. And we're gonna work with lighting and you know, come up with some new stuff. So just something that I've always wanted to do and it's exciting to have a new place and so I'm excited about Holly coming through and it may not work out cause of weather or whatever, but at least, you know, I want to reiterate again. That's the beauty of helicopter land ground school. If you want to fly with us, we only fly with helicopter lane ground school members. That's it. You gotta be a member. We require to go through the videos first because there's nothing that I'm going to tell you face to face. Sitting here across from each other when we're doing ground, you're not going to hear anything different than what's already in the courses. So go down below to check out helicopter online ground school 24 hour test flight on our private commercial instrument or CFI monthly and yearly memberships. Yearly is going to go away sometime in the near future. But you could take those for a 24 hour test flight. Use the training as long as you like. You can cancel anytime. You can go month to month, stay a month, leave, come back six months later, however long you like. You can cancel any time and you can self cancel. And that 24 hour test flight you can check out the training. If you want to keep it, just keep it. If you're not, it's not something you're looking for. We part as friends. You go into settings, remove your credit card, your billed nothing or go into PayPal and end your subscription and your billed nothing or keep the training. Remember, if you if you join the yearly, that's an annual recurring Membership. So you got a year to take your credit card out of there or end it in PayPal. Now, I do have people that, you know, hey, Kenny, I thought I canceled or I forgot about it. I meant to. And they got billed on their second year and they email me and they're all worried and I refund it, you know, but don't wait three months into it, right? If you get billed on your second year and it wasn't something you had planned on, just email me right away. Don't use it. Six more months, you know, a year, six months in and then go, hey, Kenny, I didn't want the training. Now don't do that. Just you got a year, right? So respect our time and our effort and our money that we put into building something that's a self sign up and a self cancel. And if you can't figure it out, we can always do it for you. Either I'll do it or Heather do it. Heather will do it for you. We'll get you unsubscribed if you can't figure it out. But it's pretty easy. Most people just do it themselves. So down below, I'm also going to put a link to my Amazon bestseller Helicopter Checkride. And I'm also going to have the same link. We'll go to top 10 checkride tips. I authored that with 2018 flight instructor of the year, Dan Tas Christman. We have a whole pile of those books and Heather takes care of shipping. And when you order the book, Heather will give you a nice email and welcome you to helicopter ground school. Make sure she's got your address right and stuff and she'll ship you the book out. You just pay shipping and handling. So my guy should be about here. So I need to wrap this dude up. Thank you, everyone. Please comment below. Please give us a thumbs up if you don't like the video and you don't like us. If you hit the dislike, make sure you hit dislike twice because that helps us out greatly. If you'll hit dislike once and then hit dislike again. Would love that. That would be awesome. That'd be awesome. So yeah. Thanks, everybody. An amazing seven years, an amazing week. Don't know what to tell you. Day one 12, coffee with Kenny. Come back tomorrow for day 113 and we'll see you then. I'm gonna wrap this dude up and get ready for my detailing guy and we'll see you tomorrow.