A 71-year-old soloed a Cabri G2 helicopter after about 18 hours of training, working toward a private pilot rating. Kenny Keller shares the student's progress notes from HelicopterOnLand Ground School, which offers structured courses and helps international students with both aviation knowledge and English.
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Day 249
August 2018
About 18 hours
Passed the written exam
Finishing up 18 hours mandatory before flight test
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His instructor just climbed out. Check this out. One of our ground school members shared this video with me. It's on YouTube. I'll put the link down below. His instructor is walking away. You can just see him there on the edge. This is cool. 71 years old, Soleno Cadbury working on his private pilot. How freaking cool is that? Again, I'll put the link down below. So if you want to check out the entire video on YouTube. This is day 249. And I just want to share this today because I thought, how cool is that? You know, with all the stories and things we've been sharing lately with people working on their ratings. 50s, 60s. Here's a guy, 70 year, 71 years old, out soloing the Cadbury, and he is one of our helicopter ground school members. And I just wanted to share with you a couple things that he said. He said, I'm 71. Been working on my private pilot ticket with The Cadbury since August 2018. Got a lot of things going on. Now finishing up 18 hours mandatory before flight test. Have soloed about 18 hours and passed the written. Okay, that's awesome. So that was his first email. And then I made a comment to him, you know, thanks for sharing that information. And I told him, he sent me another email and he's like, happy to share. It's been a lifelong dream. Because I told him I wanted to share this video because he'd shared the video with me. So I wanted to share with all of you, right? And he said, happy to share. It's been a lifelong dream. Tomorrow, auto training flight at 0830 with Cabri. Do you know what cabri means? He says, and I don't. I've never heard this, but this is kind of neat. It's an acronym. He says it stands for comfort in auto rotation because rotor inertia. Awesome. Hey, if that's the case, that's a cool. That's cool, cool acronym. So I just wanted to share this today. Success of a member out there at 71 years old, solo on a freaking helicopter, working on a private rating. How cool is that? It's just cool, man. It's just cool. So I am Kenny Keller, creator, helicopter on land ground School, day 249 of our daily videos. Or we talk about helicopter training, all kinds of stuff. Some days it's just celebrations like this. I love sharing these stories. And people, of course, are excited when they share their successes, their solos, their ratings. You know, our HOGS Wall of fame keeps growing. New studio. I'm getting ready to show you that in the next day or two, got all my new trusses up, got all the lights up, doing some wiring, now wiring up some different camera mounts. It's freaking cool and exciting. So many awesome stories coming in from people. So he uses the training, loves it, he said. He also made a comment that your site helps me review in English with videos. I like that. And I've had quite a few other people, members from out of the country, from out of the US that tell me the helicopter laying around school videos not only help them learn the ground knowledge, it also helped them learn the English language, which, you know, how cool is that? I mean that's just so neat. I know that my instructor, still one of my best friends, one of my first instructors was from Germany and when he came over he was learning the English language language while he was learning to fly helicopters, you know, and so it's. It's nice to know that through helicopter land ground school that we're not only, only just helping people learn the knowledge, that we're helping them learn the English language too. How cool is that? I think it's just freaking awesome. Alright, I'm gonna wrap it up because I wanted to share Pierre's video with you today. That's about 12 minute long video. I'll put that link down below so you can go check it out if you'd like and see his first solo in action. Very cool. Very, very cool. So down below, helicopterground.com youm can check out our courses. Private, Commercial, CFI, Instrument. We have monthly options, all on all of them. You can use it month to month. You can cancel any time, you can keep as long as you like. You can leave and come back. You can do the private while you need it. Take a little break while you're building your commercial time. Come back, join as a commercial member and so on. And you can do that with all the courses. Private, commercial instrument, cfi. And it's become quite popular, the monthly option. Just because it works on a budget, right? I mean the private pilot's only $49 a month. That's 120 videos, 18 hours of training that you can watch as many times as you want. Keep it for a month if you only need it for a month, keep it for however many months you want. Take a break anytime, come back anytime, unsubscribe, anytime. It's. It's really a beautiful thing. It's turned out really cool. So go down below to helicopterground.com and you can take any of those courses for 24 hour test flight on those monthly options. You will be billed nothing in the first 24 hours. Decide if the training is right for you. If it is, proceed on. If not, just remove your credit card information from settings down the left hand side of the site, go into settings, remove your credit card info and you will not be billed as long as you take that number out or those numbers out before the end of the 24 hours. Same thing with PayPal. If you sign up with PayPal, just go into PayPal and end the subscription in there. Any questions? Give me a email@kennyelicopterground.com like subscribe. Click the little bell and you subscribe and we'll see you in day 250. Peace out.
