Day with Kenny in the R 44: Exclusive Flight Training and Top-Notch H.O.G.S. Gear

Live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com all right, we're starting something new and different. As you can see, the R44 is back as I trip over the skids and fall on the floor. So the R44 is back flying well and we're going to do something kind of cool over the next several weeks. Our examiner is off until about April 12, so we've got some final approach course customers ready to go. But that means we can't do any checkrides until after April 12th. So in the meantime, to get the aircraft flying, we came up with something kind of cool called a day with kenny in the R44. And this is going to include a professional pilot membership along with some other goodies. So first is a 30 minute Zoom session with me. We'll do this so that I can kind of get an idea of kind of where you're at and what you want to do when you get here. Maybe you want to use 2 hours for checkride prep or may you just want to experience the R44. Maybe you're new to flying, maybe you've been flying a while, maybe you just want to go experience it and just do whatever. So we're going to have some different options on things we can do while we're out flying. Pretty much most anything, any of the maneuvers, any of the emergencies. And so what we're going to do is two dual one hour flights in the R44. And what I've been preaching is a really good lesson takes about three hours. And what we learned in the past with our final approach course customers, somebody's coming in. We're going to try to jam out some training in a week to get a checkride done. In the first year we did it, we did three flights a day. Three flights a day is hard to get done in an eight hour day. It turns into a nine or ten hour day and everybody goes home tired. Because the reality of it is a lot of flight schools, rush, rush, rush, hurry, hurry, hurry. And try to jam you through in an hour and a half. The reality is you come in and meet your instructor. Hey, how you doing? How you feeling? What's going on? You know what's been happening? What are we going to do today? Sit down, talk about a course of action for your first flight. Then you need to pre flight the helicopter. That takes a little bit of time. Push the helicopter out, get fuel, do a walk around, get in, do a good slow startup, taking your time so that we don't have over speeds or any other issues. Go fly an hour, come back, do a good checklist shutdown, then, then either put the aircraft away if it's, you know, hot and sunny out, or it's a nice day, we can leave it out. But then you got to sign logbooks and then you want to debrief what you did. And if you're taking your time and you're doing this right and it's being effective, that's three to four hours for a really good lesson. And I'll argue that point. I don't care where you're flying. Oh, we can do it in two hours. Yeah, you can. And a lot of people do it. Not very effective. It's rush, rush, rush. So in this one day, when you come out, we'll do our hour flight in the morning, have lunch on the grill. There's a burger picture, I believe in the presentation that we're fading to our burgers. I'm telling you, it's probably one of those burgers. The best burgers you've ever had in your life. They're amazing. We get fresh meat from the local supermarket. I have this particular hamburger that I picked out and everybody that has my hamburger says, oh my God, this is an incredible cheeseburger. I'm not that great of a cook, but I can make one mean ass cheeseburger. So full eight hour day at the hangar. We just talked about the burger. Then at the end of the day, we're going to go out for dinner and we can just go to Pizza Hut or we can go to one of the fancier restaurants. Supper's on me. And if you want to hang around and have an adult beverage or two or a picture of beer or something, we'll even make sure you get a ride back to your hotel. We have plenty of nice places to go, sit down in the evening, have a good time and, and we can tell stories, debrief the day, talk about ground, whatever you want to do. So this is a full entire day, Full entire eight hours at the hangar. Lunch, supper, evening of fun and just talking about whatever you want to talk about. Then when we're out in the helicopter, if you want to see some different things, I'm going to show you some of, I don't know if I want to call them, like my specialties, just things that I was lucky enough to be taught by someone else. And many times when somebody travels here from another part of the country, a lot of times they're really appreciative of some of the things that I have learned that I share and whether you're brand new or somebody who's been flying a while, a lot of these things somebody will say, like, how come nobody's ever shown me that before? And there's simple things like the air cushion. If nobody showed you the air cushion, that happens about 6 or 8 inches above the ground. If you don't know about this, this is going to help improve your pickups and set downs. I guarantee it. Then power management. Of course, everybody talks about power management, but what I find is people come here from somewhere else around the country and they're usually rather aggressive. And being aggressive is not good for your power management. So we're going to do that hoverados, which is kind of my forte. It's the one thing that I really, really love to teach. And I feel like there's a couple little simple things if you know will help you with those. Because a lot of people struggle with hoverados and are intimidated by, intimidated by hoverados. I guarantee you I can help you with those. Painfully slow takeoff. Many of you have already been taught this. However, I know a lot of you aren't. I know people that at the commercial and CFI level going for those additional ratings, they come here and nobody's ever shown them the painfully slow takeoff. They do this aggressive yank a bunch of power and go like crazy. Well, it's my belief that as a student pilot, you should be introduced to the painfully slow takeoff. You should be doing it as a private pilot, commercial pilot, cfi, and you should be teachers teaching your students to do the painfully slow takeoff. So we're going to do that. We'll do some real world auto rotations. You know, we, we talk about a standard and when I talk about my auto, auto rotation tips, I always have people say, oh, but that's not real world. You know, yeah, that's great flying to a standard and a good setup. But you know what? That's not real world. Well, we train to a real, we train to a standard so you can pass your test. So we'll go out and do some real world stuff. Let's go pretend cross country and fly 100 knots. And I'll roll the power off and of course I'll announce it, but we'll do some of those things at different airspeeds and different altitudes that you don't normally get at the typical flight school. We know other people's. Other people beside me have stated in training we do 90s or we do straight ends and 180 straight ends and 180s. Our boy Chris Hauser, who just brought the R44 back, he calls it a training scar. He thinks that if you're only trained a straight in and you're only trained 180, then when it happens to you in the real world, that's all you're going to know how to do. So we'll go out and do some of this real world scenarios, give you some out of the box thinking on doing some auto rotations, which will be a lot of fun. And of course I can do any emergency practice with you. If you're at that point and you want to do emergencies, we can certainly do emergencies and more. But that's just some of the highlights that I think of the things that I like to do with people and show people that they don't get at the typical flight school. So in this whole hog experience for a full day, we really want you to go away with some really cool stuff and learn a few things. And almost everybody that's come here has learned something in some shape or form. And every time I go somewhere, I learn something new. If I go to California or I go to Florida and I go fly with somebody else, I learn something every single time. And I hopefully I can do the same thing for you. And if you walk away with a couple of new things, then you learn something. That's the whole point. And now for the goodies that come with your two hours of flight time or full day in the R44, the hogs hanger. Everybody has fun that comes here. Nobody has left unhappy. It's a great time. I'm telling you. You'll learn something. And we're going to add the brand new Private Pilot 101. Goes with the full day package. I'll sign up for you, write in whatever you want. And we're also going to add top 10 chick chick ride tips. Top 10 check ride tips. We're going to add that. God dang it. Okay. Helicopter Checkride, which is my original book that we've left alone because it is my work from 10 years ago and I kind of hate to change it. That's included then since Lindsay pointed it out. Top 10 checkride tips. We have updated this for 2024. Have some new info in it. Cool new cover, short, small read, but very, very powerful stuff. I did that with Taz Chrisman, 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. We're going to include that. But wait, there's more. We're also going to give you a copy of the Private Pilot Study Guide. You may or may not have Heard this before. It has all the chapters in here. Example, air with. Sorry, slow down. Keller Certificates and documents, airworthiness requirements, weather information, cross country airspace, performance and limitations, operational systems, aeromedical factors, general aerodynamics. There's over 400 possible questions that you can be asked on a checkride. They're in here. This is a super, super resource preparing for your private. And we tell people that's good for commercial and CFI too because you start out with all that basic VFR stuff at every single checkride. So it is more, it is valuable past private. And we're going to do give you a copy of the maneuver guide while you're here. This is the original we've been using. We just put some the new logo in there and we're going to make a little fancier cover. Something a little nicer, neater, a little more sturdy. We're going to give you a copy of that and the famous Hogs ball cap. I don't wear caps, but Heather and Lindsey both wear ball caps and they both say it's the most comfortable hat they've ever worn. And that's not just a plug to try to sell you. Of course. They absolutely love that hat and the mini no go. And this is fun because if you know the story, you know, we start out with a big no go. And I still want to order some more of those. But this is kind of cute and kind of cool. I just came back from heli Expo and I took a whole backpack. Oh, backpack. Took a whole backpack full of these and handed it out to members when I talked to members at expo and everybody was super appreciative of these and it was super fun. Yes. You're also going to get the Hogs backpack now that I've been using this. This is, I have now switched, this is my daily bag back and forth to the airport from home. I took it with me to California, used it for the no gos. You know, all my stuff going through, you know, security, everything out of my pockets went in here, my laptop, my mouse, everything fits nicely in this bag. And I really, really like it. And it's, it's already stood up well to three weeks of heavy duty, heavy duty use. Often on the plane, in and out of the rental car, walking around Hexpo. It was perfect. I really, really like it. So you're going to get that along with the no go. And then I'm looking at Lindsay's presentation over there. You're going to get Hogs patches which we have a picture of those in the presentation, I don't have them laying here on the table. We're going to give you a Hogs patch, a couple of hog stickers if you like, and then the Live to Fly hoodie. At this point, we've only bought these for ourselves here. For the crew at HOGS and some local friends. I've given a few out, but these have not been available until now. Live to Fly another Day hoodie will also be a part of your one day package. And of course you want to know what this is going to cost you. Is it going to cost you $9,999? No. No. Is it going to cost you $5,508.16, which is list value of everything for the two hours of flight, a full day with me, meals, all the goodies, all the extras. The price would be $5,508.16. And we have hog superfans that have paid full price for everything. So this is the true going rate. So for this special, Here comes your price. 39. 77.77. Just like Walmart. I was told that Walmart does that on purpose, so that's why we threw the 77 on the end. So there's your price for a full entire day. The Whole Hog experience. You're going to learn something, you're going to have fun and we're going to send you back home with, you know, the Whole Hog experience under your belt. Okay, so this ends 10pm Eastern, March 11th. And we're only opening this up for three. Three people. And again, we've got a lot going on. We've got the examiner to be ready around April 12th. We've got FACS that we're scheduling. So we're only going to do three of these. I'm sorry, the 11th, 10pm so we'll have a link around this video somewhere where you can go sign up now. You can also reach out to Hogsmember support 574-767-1797 if you have any questions, you want to talk about it first. But there are only three. I love the number three. Three full days. Works for my schedule with everything else I have going on and the flying and fresh videos that we want to do. And then we have one or two other people that want to come fly, do some couple days of training. Members are looking forward to coming up. So jump on the bandwagon now, get signed up and we'll see. See you at the Hogs hangar over the next several weeks. Peace out. When you feel the pressure to fly, but know the right decision is to stay on the ground, Hit the hogs no go and live to fly another day. Helicopterground Com.