Kenny Keller covers what examiners test on helicopter checkrides: fog formation, thunderstorms, and reading weather reports. He emphasizes studying the stuff that kills pilots, like flying into clouds by accident, and shares that he just bought a 1988 speedboat.
Gotta tell me when you go on now. All right. Hey. Day 167. Raw video. Gotta do this. Just get to it. First day of summer. Oh my God. And it's beautiful weather. And I just bought a boat, my first speedboat. So this doesn't do a pontoon, but hey, I bought a 1988 old school. Live within your means. It was a good buy. So Gator, he said, hey, how about some weather stuff checkride, you know, kind of questions they ask? Yes, there's a whole bunch of stuff to weather, to study for weather. And inside Helicopter line ground school, which I'm the creator of, Helicopter Line Ground School, we have a whole great big huge section on weather, right? And it's a lot of stuff. But his question was about checkrides on check rides. An examiner isn't going to have time to ask you a hundred weather questions, but he's going to ask you about the stuff that can kill you. Okay? You have to understand fog and you have to understand how it forms. You got to understand when that temperature dew point are getting close together, you're in danger of fog. You got to know what, how that happens because that is going to be a killer, right? Inadvertent into imc. Visual or instrument going inadvertent imc. That's how people get killed. Right? And thunderstorms, another big one. They're going to ask you about the three stages of a thunderstorm. They're going to ask you about how thunderstorms, how they form, anything that can kill you. And it even makes me think back to my private, one of my instructors, Brad, who said, you know what, helicopter aerodynamics, helicopter emergencies and anything that can kill you. So, you know, is he gonna ask you a bunch of questions about the atmosphere at 60,000ft? Probably not for helicopter pilot. And I'll even say I can remember taking my CFI check ride with Tim Tucker and he's like, what do we know about weather? You know, what helicopter pilots do? You know, and you got to know a little bit more about, a little bit more about than that. But again, we have a whole weather section inside helicopter ground school that we're going to be updating. And you have to understand the fog, the thunderstorms. He's going to ask you all that kind of stuff. And taps in metars. You have to be able to read taps and metars. Yes, it's a pain to learn, but you know what, once you get it, it ain't that bad. It's not that hard to refresh your memory you have to spend the time because he's going to want to make sure on your go, no go decision you know how to properly check weather. And one examiner I've used for 20 years, he takes you right over and you have to read a tap and you have to read a metar. And he does that whether you're brand new private pilot or you're an add on. Private pilot. That's where a lot of the private add on guys get frustrated on an add on because they're like well I'm already a pilot, doesn't matter. He's going to want to make sure that you know how to do it. So. So my daughter Gloria swimming for me today. It is the first day of summer. We'll do some more bits on weather coming up and I'm going to wrap this up because I just bought a boat. I just started it. We just started across the lake. We're going to get fuel but I had to do a coffee with Kenny and I thought, you know what, it's first day of summer, let's do one from the the old 1988 Starcraft. I like old school, simple thing, runs nice, starts really good, runs really nice. The way I like it. My daughter's grinning at me. So day 167 and when you subscribe, click the that little bell because if you do that you get notified of our daily video. Every single day we put out a new helicopter training video. We talk about training careers, check rides, anything and everything's fair game considering helicopters. So once again and we'll get this thing cleaned up too. Right now we got everything just kind of thrown around because I just picked it up. Day 167. Peace out. See you. Day 168.
