Kenny Keller explains why pilots get the Advanced Ground Instructor rating and how it helps. An examiner once skipped parts of a CFI oral for a candidate with AGI. He recommends the ASA test-prep manual for study since it labels AGI questions.
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Kenny Keller
May 14, 2019
ASA test-prep manual (go through questions labeled AGI).
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Good morning and welcome to Day 129 copy with Kenny. I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School. I'm author of The Amazon number one bestseller Top 10 Checkride Tips, co authored with Dan Taz Christman 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. Dan is also one of our Helicopter Line Ground School members first and then became one of our instructors. And Dan does a majority of the videos in our Instrument Online course. I'm also the author of Amazon number one bestseller Helicopter Checkride. Really proud of that book as well. Both of those are available on Amazon, but you can get free paperback copies by going down below this video in the description box. We'll ship these to you for just shipping and handling. We bought the books for you. There are a couple of great books. So that link's down below and when I answer a question about AGI Advanced Ground Instructor and there's a couple good reasons to get this rating. I haven't talked about this in a long time and I'm glad this question came up from one of our members. He said, good morning. I'm interested in becoming an advanced Ground Instructor. I've seen the requirements in testing centers. However, I'm having a difficult time finding any curriculum tailored to Advanced Ground School instructor. Any suggestions? The people that I know that have got the AGI in the past just use the ASA test prep manual. Because when you go through that manual, it'll show you all the questions for AGI. So gonna take some time and effort. But the beauty is this is another rating. This is an actual license that you get when you get the AGI. And many years ago I had someone tell me who'd been in aviation a long time and it had a bunch of ratings. He told me something that was kind of cool and I I've never seen this happen, but I thought this is right, kind of a good idea. He said, let's say you have the AGI and along with your other ratings and you made some kind of violation, you know, or you got in trouble with the faa. They could pull just this AGI and not necessarily put you out of business. Let's say you're a commercial pilot cfi, they could take that particular rating if they wanted to punish you and not be a big deal. I've never seen it happen. But this came from someone who I know who's at that time had almost every single rating there was under the sun. And I thought it was a really pretty good tip. And then something else cool that happened with one of my members who had his commercial got the advanced Ground instructor rating. Then when he went for his certified flight instructor rating, the examiner actually moved right into the practical test, the oral portion, and skipped some of the stuff in the pts because this student applicant had the AGI. So it actually helped this person in the CFI checkride. And this I witnessed firsthand, so I know that it does help. And it did help this particular individual on the CFI checkride because this individual already had the advanced ground instructor rating. And the examiner's like, oh, hey, cool, okay, well, we can skip a couple things here because you have that rating. So I like this video and I like that question because I haven't talked about this in a long time, if ever, in 10 years of making videos. So the simple answer for him is, and cheap answer would be just get the ASA test prep manual and go through all the questions. Anything that has AGI above it, that's going to be a possible question on that test. Wouldn't spend a lot of money, spend some time and effort, but it is an additional rating. So a couple of good reasons there why a person might want to get the AGI. Love to hear your feedback on. Any other good reasons on why you think an AGI might be a good idea? Do you have one? I don't really know a lot of people that actually go for that rating. But hey, it's another advanced rating. It's just like the IGI Instrument Ground Instructor. And there are a lot of people out there who just like to get ratings. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you like to do is put those ratings under your belt. Something else for your resume looks good because you took the time and effort to get something that most people don't have. So I'm Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Land Ground School. We do have private pilot, commercial pilot, instrument pilot and certified flight instructor courses. We've been online seven years. We have monthly options for all of those courses. And included with that monthly option, you get a 24 hour free test flight. You go in, check out the training. You do not get billed for the first 24 hours. You do have to enter your credit card information or sign up with PayPal, but you will not be billed until like hour 2526. And we've tested this to be sure you have a full 24 hours. I just had a question. Hey, I was looking at another ground school course and I got a sample. Can I sample yours? And I'm like, yeah, you can sample it. You can take the 24 hour test flight and not just sample, you can see the entire course. They got one access to one module with this other company, not with ours, you can see the full entire course. And for the private pilot, for example, there's 120 videos plus in the private pilot you can see the whole course. So the burden is on us to provide you the value. You can go in there and take a look at it. If it's something you're looking for, great. Proceed on go month to month. You can cancel anytime. You can keep the training as long as you like. If you take that 24 hour test flight and you decide you know it's not right for me right now, no big deal, we part as friends. You just go into settings with inside helicopter, airline, ground school. Remove your credit card and you won't be able to anything within that first 24 hours. Or if you sign up with PayPal, go into PayPal, end your subscription, you'll be billed nothing. We part as friends and you're welcome back anytime. We have that happen quite often. We have people that take a test flight, don't proceed on, then come back a few months later. We have people that do the private for a few months, take a break, come back, do commercial and so on with the instrument and the cfi. So the monthly option is great because you can keep it as long as you want. You can cancel anytime and never even be billed with the 24 hour test flight. But I talk about this every day and I'm still surprised the amount of emails that I get. Well, hey, can I look at your training? Absolutely. 24 hour free test flight for any one of our courses. We've been on a line, We've been online seven years. We celebrated big this past spring on our seven year birthday. For seven years we've had a 100% no hassle money back guarantee as well on all of our courses. You got 30 days to check out the training even after the test flight. So the burden is on us to provide you the value. That's it. And we're just super proud of our training. So I'm gonna get going. I have an add on guy coming in today. We're down the last couple flights, getting ready. This gentleman ready for his checkride. So some of the people have been following the videos, know a little bit about that. So he'll be in later today. So I gotta get rolling. Please like and subscribe to the channel. When you subscribe, click that bell. Also give us a thumbs up on the video if you would please. If you're not. If you're not liking the video, click dislike twice. That always helps. So click that dislike once and then click it again. Heck, yeah. All right, I got to get out of here. Like, subscribe, Click that button, and we'll see you in day 130.
