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Hey, this is Todd Berry in Manassas Airport in Northern Virginia. I just wanted to shout out to Kenny, Taz, Chris, everybody at Helicopter Online Ground School, I just passed my checkride. It's been a long haul, but I finally did it with the help of HOGS and Helicopter Online Ground School. Thanks guys.

Hey guys. My name is Blake. I'm currently working on my private helicopter rating. I've been using Helicopter Online Ground School for about a month now and I really think it's a great program because I can study from my house and all the instructors at Helicopter Online Ground School are really great about putting stuff into context where everybody can understand it and really helping break down the process of learning everything that you need to know to get your checkride passed. So I'm about 10 hours away from taking my checkride and I'm pretty confident that once I get to that day that I'll be fully prepared from everything I've learned from Helicopter Online Ground School.

How he finally got to stop by and see us.

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Well, I did it with HOGS and I can't thank Kenny and the entire crew for all the hard work that you have done and put together. I wouldn't have these three ratings if it wasn't for Helicopter Online Ground School getting me prepared and making sure that I have the right knowled the proper preparations for each individual checkride. So once again, thanks the HOGS crew. Kenny, thank you.

Thanks for coming to see us again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So I stumbled upon Helicopter Online Ground School about two years ago now, maybe two and a half. And I was the kind of learner that could, could be in the books all the time and I'd get to the end of the page and not remember what I just read. I realized I'm more of a visual learner and I decided to purchase Kenny's commercial ground school course. And with the PowerPoints and the in cockpit footage, the outer cockpit footage, all the explanations was an excellent supplement for what I was reading in those books. And after a four hour oral interview, the examiner told me I was above average. And he even offered to write me a letter of recommendation when it came time to apply for jobs at the end of my checkride.

So, hey Hogs, this is Kyle back again. It is July 19th. I just did my commercial. I got my commercial rating. Let's say thank you for all you've done. Say thanks for Sevier county choppers in Sevierville for letting me come here and get my license. Just want to say thank everybody in the video without you, I don't know if I could do this. I watch your videos when I'm cooking and cleaning and it's a big help. So everybody putting on the hard time that got me to where I am. So say thank you. If you haven't got hogs, get it. And Kenny, you know where to sit.

In my shirt. I recently taught a student of mine at our school. He was doing a private pilot and three week course that we offered, which is an extenuous course. It's super fast. Have to do a lot of training with the students and get them up to par within the three weeks because most of them have come on visas so they don't have much time to spend. Particular student of ours, his name was Johan van der Waalt. He came to our school and I sat him down with ground school with another instructor of ours. And the first day I looked in his folder and it said review. Well, I figured that the instructor wasn't doing their job, so I looked in and I scheduled my own ground school with him. And sure enough, it was a review. I was appalled by all the knowledge that he had and I asked him, hey man, what did you do? Well, he said, well, this helicopter online ground school thing, he's like, it's awesome. You get on there and he's like, it takes you everything that you even need to know. And I said, wow. So we quizzed for a little while and I figured, hey, he's pretty content. I would leave it at that. He can go on for his checkride. I'll give him the sign off for his oral part. So a couple days later I told him, hey, get your written knocked out. He got his written knocked out. We flew for the whole entire three weeks and he finished it up. The easiest student that I had. It was an honor for me to work with him because he already knew everything that he was talking about. Super easy gentleman to get along with. He passes oral perfectly, passes flight tests perfectly. He had no stress throughout the whole entire three weeks because all he had to focus on was the flying. Because like I said, he got his written test done within the first three or four days that he was there. So that was awesome job on his part and awesome job on Kenny's part. Great job, fellas.

William here at Seviera County Trappers in suburban Tennessee. Just want to let you know over the weekend, November 10th 11th. Yeah, on a day I completed my C5C of double. I. I just want to say thank you for all the help that I did for me. Hogs is more than just an online ground school.

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It's more than that. Every time I had a question, y' all always answered it on time. Y' all made it very personal. Each person means something to y' all and it's very nice to see someone out there that really cares about you. So thank you for all the help I've done and I'd like to have a shout out to my instructor Nick, who got me another guy single handed through instrument and commercial and had a big role in getting both us through CFI and cfii.

Let it give us. Let's see. This is Nick. What's going on, hogs?

So say thank you and have a good day.

So thank you again. That's awesome.

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I found your site the same way a lot of other people do. The first school I ATT didn't even talk about ground school. They didn't even mention ground school. It wasn't even an option. The owner just wanted to fly, fly, fly. And I used yours as definitely an immersion tool. It was every day, most of the day, for a long time. And especially the word for word emergency procedures. I watch that section in great repetition and I can still hear the words. I mean, if you're just reading through the poh. As simple as it was.

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Hey, Kenny, it's Jordan and I'm in Las Vegas and it is done. I want to thank you for your courses. I travel a lot and I had a really huge challenge assimilating the knowledge base necessary to pass my checkride. I'd already passed the written test when I ordered your course, and it took me two years to get my license. And the helicopter ground school really helped me immensely in the final preparation for my checkride. There were a lot of times in the process that I really questioned whether I actually could get this done. And your training really did help me along the way. So I want to thank you. I'm certified in the Robinson R44. I did my checkride in a Clipper 2 in Vegas and you're looking more and more like Kiefer Sutherland every day. So anyway, I love the new videos. Thank you and hope to see you soon. Take care.

Bye. Bye.

Real quick, Jamie, just give us the brief overview of just a little bit of struggle that you had and why you decided just to come up here and just get it done.

Well, everybody's busy. We all have things to do and trying to get our schedules lined up, it's pretty difficult. So 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.

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 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.

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Your videos cleared up, and it works. And it works for me.

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So I'm already doing the commercial now.

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