Short YouTube interview (testimonial) between Kenny Keller and student Jamie Cobb. Jamie describes using Kenny's helicopter online ground school for about a year, facing scheduling and training delays, then traveling from Texas and completing his private pilot checkride in about nine days (arrived on the 2nd, checkride on the 10th). Kenny emphasizes the usefulness of the ground school videos, paperwork/logbook prep, and that Jamie plans to build PIC time and return for his commercial rating.
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About nine days (arrived on the 2nd; checkride on the 10th).
Texas.
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Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter online ground school here with Jamie Cobb. One of our ground school members just got his private pilot rating, and we just want to do a quick impromptu video because we both got to get going, have other things to do. But the checkride was yesterday. He just got done. And we just want to talk a little bit about, you know, we all have struggles when we go to get our rating, private commercial, whatever the case is. I failed my first private, so my private turned into a couple years, you know, more money, lots of frustration. Jamie's had some issues along the way just with. And I'll let him tell you more about it, but just kind of getting people lined up because a lot of times having an available instructor who has examiner available, you know, everybody's time, everybody's busy with their lives, so it's not always easy to get these ratings done. So real quick, Jamie, just give us the brief overview of just a little bit of struggle that you had and, and why you decided just to come up here and just get it done.
Well, everybody's busy. We, you know, we all have things to do and trying to get our schedules lined up. Yep, it's pretty difficult. So I, I bought your online ground school and felt I needed to get more of a grip on things, and I did that and just going through it and I thought, well, maybe Kenny can help me out trying to get this thing, get this thing done. I was getting tired of it and just tired of all the struggles.
He's been at ground school for about a year, and I even went back and looked through the emails. We've been communicating for a year. There's 10 or 15 emails, and several times he's called me through the way and saying, hey, you know, I'm just kind of struggling with this or that. And I give him some pointers. And we talked a couple times about him coming up here, and he'd just been working out long enough where he just said, you know, what if I come up there, can I just come up and get done? And he did, and he got here on the 2nd. Yesterday was the 10th. We got him done in about nine days. He had good knowledge from going through ground school. The instructors he flew with did a good job with him in the aircraft. So when he showed up, there wasn't really a big problem other than it was just putting everything together, going out, flying a little bit, doing a little bit of ground to polish everything up to make sure it was all good, and then going through the paperwork because we know or if you don't know. There's a lot of documentation and logbooks and 8710 and getting everything right to go see the examiner. So we did that in about nine days and flew over yesterday. Windier than the average checkride, but he felt good about it. Examiner felt good about it, and probably the windiest checkride I've done in 15 years. And he still went out and flew to a standard, passed and got the rating done.
So I'm not sure how I did that. But you did work out.
You did it. I was even going, wow, it's kind of windy. But I thought, well, as long as examiner wants to go and you feel good about it. And then they went out and flew maneuvers and got it done. And after the fact, I said, hey, is there anything that the examiner asked you during the checkride that we hadn't covered or wasn't in online ground school, and your answer was, nope, you covered everything.
I mean, your videos really helped me out a lot. I mean, there's just. The books are overwhelming. So many doc. There's so many documents for that.
Your.
Your videos cleared up.
That's, you know, why I build it, because I failed my first checkride. Most people know. And that's one thing that Jamie connected with me when he first started watching my videos was, hey, the guy admitted that he failed. And, you know, I've created a business out of it because I know how hard it is when you got eight different books and you're trying to study here and you're trying to study here, and it just gets overwhelming. So I kind of just put my own little training manual together with my own notebook and been teaching out of it for years and then turned it into online ground school, and here we are. So.
And it works, and it works for me.
Yep.
So I'm already doing the commercial now.
Yep. He's gonna go back, build his pic time, and when he's ready for the commercial, he'll come back up. And he knows now he can just come up. We'll get to it, get everything, get it done, get everything signed off, make sure the requirements are all met. Polish the fly in, polish the ground school, and go out and get it done. So you want to learn more about our helicopter ground school, go to helicopterground.com in the description box below. Thanks, Jamie, for traveling all the way from Texas to come up here and you can look for more to come. So give us a like and share and we'll see in the next video.
