#202 Helicopter Pilot Brushing Up With Training (after 2.5 decades not flying)

Good morning. Got a great question for day 202. Coffee with Kenny. I am Kenny Keller, creator, Helicopter Land Ground School. We got a question from a former military pilot. This is a great question for rusty pilots. Anybody that's been out of it for a while that wants to get back in. And I've got something that will relate for Scott. He says, kenny, I'm a former military helicopter pilot with about 2000 hours commercial rating and an instrument rating. That was 25 years ago. I recently decided to fly again. Good for you. That's freaking awesome. 11 days short of 25 years. Got my BFR signed off. It really is like riding a bike on the muscle memory. That's awesome. And I've heard this before. I flew with a Navy pilot who didn't fly for many years and he got a job working at the EMS base that I worked at, same deal. The muscle memory came right back to him on flying. He hadn't flown in many years. He never even said how many. But it'd been since the airspace change, right? So it'd been many years. And he said that was the hard part for him was getting back in and studying in learning the airspace, the new airspace, even though it's not real new. But you know, many people don't realize that the airspace was completely entirely different a while back. So he goes on to say, but my detail knowledge is obviously lacking, having not been in the aviation environment for 2.5 decades. That's just crazy, man. But. But it's crazy cool, right? I think, I think it would be beneficial to run through the courses on hogs to obtain a good thorough refresher on the details. I've forgotten. Last time I flew, the airspace was called something completely different. What level of courses would you recommend? I will be flying day and night, VFR only in a single seat, experimental gas turbine. By the way, I really love the coffee with Kenny videos every day. Pretty cool. Fly Navy, Scott. Awesome question, Scott. Good for you. Getting back into it. That's so awesome. We have so many people that are starting later in life and then we have lots of people who are just starting out brand new that are younger. And then we have people that are rusty pilots. You know, it's very simply said, you haven't flown in 25 years. I think it's extremely cool that you're getting back in it. So to answer your question, I think, you know, I'm a businessman, but maybe sometimes a poor businessman. Instead of selling you the great big package, I think for you I'd go for this private pilot monthly because it's only $49 a month and all of our knowledge starts with basic private pilot stuff, right? So for Scott, I recommend going in just at the private pilot level on the monthly options, $49. And depending on how much time you have to go in there and hit it and refresh your knowledge, boom, you could go in, do a month and, and then unsubscribe if you got your knowledge up. If it takes you a little bit longer, you keep it as long as you want. That's the beauty of it. You can keep it as long as you want, you can cancel any time and you could always bump it up to the commercial or CFI if you want to work on the advanced stuff. But it looks like for the flying you're going to be doing right now, I'd say go for the private pilot monthly. Get in there, start refreshing your knowledge. There's always the yearly option if you want, and then there's the big professional pilot package if you want. But you're probably not going to need all that unless you decide to start flying commercially or start or work on your cfi, which, who knows, you get flying again, you may be so excited, you may heck, say heck, I want to start instructing because I don't think you have the cfi by the way, that reads. So, Scott, I say jump in on the private pilot membership. At 49 bucks, it has a 24 hour test flight. So you can look at what we have for 24 hours before your credit card gets billed or before the billing takes place in PayPal. You can sign up either way. And if you decide the train is not for you, Scott, you can just unsubscribe by taking your credit card information out of settings before the 24 hours is up and you'll be billed nothing. Or if you sign up with PayPal, go into PayPal and end that subscription in there. Then you continue on. You don't do anything other than when you're ready to end the subscription, just end it yourself. We can do it for you, but it takes you more time to email me and have me go in and do it than it does just to do it yourself. But I'll do it for you. Or Heather will do it for you. Heather is your member concierge that takes care of as many things as she can. When it's something a little more difficult, technical wise, then she'll get with me on it. But anyway, Scott, to answer your question, I think that's what you should do. I Think should jump in at the private pilot level. Everything we learn is off the private pilot anyway, right? So that's very simply put. I'd go with the private pilot membership and I'll send you a link to this today. Scott. So you know, I did answer your question. Been answering questions every day. Most time I'm answering questions. Sometimes I'm just coming up with topics I like to talk about. This is day 202, coffee with Kenny. 202 days. Started out in January or February. January I think. I had a beautiful day out here and I came out, had a cup of coffee and thought I'm going to shoot a video out on the deck. And then I just did it the next day and the next day and within a few days people are calling at coffee with Kenny and going, what's tomorrow? So this started by accident, just doing a video for fun one day. And I mean I've been making videos for 10 years. But the daily video thing just started on its own, took off on a life of its own. The members started calling it Copy with Kenny. So we said, well what the heck, let's just make that official. So Scott, jump into private pilot level. We have four courses for anybody else new to helicopter land ground school. We've been online seven years, approaching eight years this coming spring. Not only do we have the 24 hour test flight on the private or on all the memberships at the monthly option and the yearly option. Those are memberships. You have to unsubscribe yourself or have us do it for you. It's a very simple process. You can go month to month, you can keep it as long as you like, you can cancel anytime, you can come back anytime. We have more and more members. They come in for a few months, do their private, take a break, come back, do the commercial, take a break, come back, do the CFI monthly. That's an option. Some people like the yearly option. And a lot of people are going for the big professional pilot membership because that is, it's a great deal for the amount of training that you get that's unlimited and doesn't expire. So if it takes you two or three or four years to get through the ratings from off the street to cfi, that's really more of the normal. And so the professional pilot's a great deal. And I'm gonna throw my code down below or I'll throw my code to you right here in the video. KK25 off. When you go to the professional pilot membership, you can enter that code and that will give you 25% off that great big package. That's awesome. So 24 hour test flight, 30 day mini back guarantee on all the courses. We've had that in place for the whole entire seven years. I stand behind that 100%. We don't argue when we say 100% money back, no risk, no hassle guarantee. That's exactly what it is. I learned early on it's easier to just if someone's not happy, you just respond them and you move on with your day. You don't sit around and argue with them and ask them why they didn't like it. We're proud of our product. We're proud of the amount of people that we've helped in seven years. It's absolutely amazing. And that 100% money back, no risk guarantee has been there in place and we love it. It's just very simple. Makes it easy. Makes it easy on us, makes it easy on you. Burden is on us to provide you the value. All right, I'm gonna wrap it up for day 202. Got more questions lined up for the next few days. Keep your questions coming in, we'll keep answering them. So we'll see in day 203. Peace out.