Episode 321: HOGS 12th Anniversary Sale – Celebrating 12 Years of Excellence

So we're gonna celebrate Hogg's 12 year anniversary coming up. The actual birthday is March 1st, 2024. 12 years sounds exciting. Last year 11 was kind of like eh, 10 was really cool, 11 was harder to get excited about. But 12 for some reason 12 sounds really cool. 12 years online March 1st, 2024. And normally we started on the 1st and kind of celebrate onto like my birthday or on the 15th. But this year we decided to go ahead and start today, start now. Because my life's going to change soon. When the helicopter gets done. I finally got word the R44, the engine is about finished. So the engine's going to get loaded from California, shipped back to Tennessee. They'll have to assemble the helicopter, which they tell me it doesn't really take long to put an engine in an R44 or take one out. But they'll put the helicopter back together, test fly it, then it'll be off to Tennessee to get the aircraft and who knows what happens from there. So we decided that we'd start the 30 day sale now and we got a bunch of cool stuff that's going to go on for the next month. I will tell you that the sale is 20% off all the HOGs memberships, private instrument, commercial, CFI for the first month of the monthlies or for the yearly options. And then we also put out something new recently just for the fun of it. We have just a private lifetime kind of different. We never offered that before. So 20% off any of those and 20% off professional pilot. And you're going to use the code hogs 12 years. So you can go to helicopterground.com use that code at checkout. It'll show you the discounted price so we encourage you to do that. Okay, so I'll put the link down below for helicopterground.com that's almost always below our videos. And we're going to add a couple extra links for for freebies. Right now starting off is the freebie for Private Pilot 101 helicopter training blueprint. We've already hit our goal. I wanted to hit Amazon number one seller. I want it to be my fourth Amazon number one bestseller. We hit it on the day it launched January 27th. Still available as a Kindle for 99 cents. I'll put that link down below. You can also get it as a free PDF and view it now. I'll put that link down below as well. So you'll have the Amazon link and the free PDF link and we are going to launch the paperback March 1, 2024. Because what we're doing right now is we are taking your feedback that you're sending us. Hey, I like the book. I'd like to see this. We encourage your feedback in the next couple weeks as we get ready to launch the paperback copy. That's why this one says Proof not for resale. We're updating that now. And then something else throughout the month that we're going to do. We are updating our older books, our other Amazon bestsellers. And I'm going to start with this one, showing you this one. Top 10 checkride tips. Many of you already have it. We've updated the COVID we've done an update to the inside and this is available now. I'll put this down below. You can get the free PDF as well. So still available on Amazon as a Kindle and a paperback. I'll put those links down below as well. So we updated this one to add the ask hogs.com, the new Kenny's Virtual Assistant that we're going to talk about tomorrow in a, in a video and it answers your question. So you could type in and ask it a question or you can actually click a button, speak into it and it will talk to you in my voice. It's really freaky, but it's actually really cool too. So we've updated that cover and we're going to go through it one more time before we make the full update for 2024. The one thing I want to add is what I've saw the last year in Checkrides. That's what also is going to go in the next update on this one. So we'll put that down below. New cover, kind of cool looking. That was Amazon bestseller. And the fun thing was if you're new to us, I co authored this with Dan Taz Christman and he's received an award from the faa. The same day we put this book out and hit Amazon bestseller. So it's 50 years of our knowledge combined on the things that we see happen in checkrides, things that people screw up. Taz put a little extra in there about he went out and talked to Las Vegas examiners. So there's some bonus stuff in there. And then I also added a tip from a 50 year examiner, Jerry Ventrella, and what he said about checkrides and how people are failing checkrides because of iPads. So that's in the new one. So we'll put that down below as well. You can get the free PDF. Next thing I want to show you, we downsized. Check it out. Live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com when we opened the box at home, Gloria did a video. As I opened the box, as you can imagine, the other ones were like this, right? They told us that we weren't going to get the. Couldn't order new ones until April because they were out of stock. These buttons were obviously popular, and Heather shipped them out, like five of them last week to people that were waiting on them that had passed their check ride. And we put them up on the Hogs Wall of Fame. So the video Gloria did of me, I opened the box, I'm kind of like, oh, that's cute. It is kind of cute, right? It's kind of cool. And I thought, if you're sitting doing your weather decisions and your table's got books and stuff, and you're on your iPad or your laptop or whatever, and you're trying to make a weather decision, do you really want this great big old honkin, this no go button there? Or do you want a no go button that could be right over there by your laptop or your book or whatever? And then somebody. One of our. It was actually Roman, I believe, from Ohio, a longtime Hogs member. He goes, perfect size for the cockpit. And I thought, that's phenomenal. We had the big one in the NSTROM that we used to fly, the cream puff, the black N strum that I used to occasionally have or that I had every, you know, every winter we mounted one in there and had it up on the dash. And that was cool. But it is big and gaudy. And when Roman said, hey, perfect size for the helicopter cockpit, I thought, you know what? That's a phenomenal idea because you can put Velcro on that, dude. Find some space in the aircraft where it could be looking at you, right? Like you climb in the helicopter and you were already kind of iffy and you look out and you go, you know, I'm not liking those clouds better. Wait it out. It's there on the dash reminding you. You reach up helicopter brown dot com. So I decided I like them better than I thought originally. So this is. Got about 45 more of these to ship out as people pass checkrides real quick. If you're new to us, this is the Hogs Wall of Fame behind me. When you pass your check ride and you sent us just a sentence or two on how Hogs helped you, we put you in the Hogs Wall of Fame. We built this originally and it had 300 pictures on it. It Kept growing and growing. So we finally went, you know what? Let's go digital. And now you get to see yourselves. And members have been enjoying that. Right. Like, we had someone who said, this is a great idea because before you could watch a video and see all the pictures, but rarely ever you're going to get a chance to see your picture. So now these screens roll in the background and everybody's going to get a chance to see themselves up on the Hogs Wall of fame. So that's really cool. What we're going to do is we still have some of these in stock. Okay. I also have a new cover designed for this one. And we're getting ready to update the interior of the book again to put for 2024 what I've seen the last year in things. People screw up on checkrides when they travel from around the country and come here to finish up. I showed you the new cover for this one. So they're still good books. They're just the original versions. So I've got maybe 20 of these and maybe 40 of these. We just checked the inventory. Over the next month, we're going to be giving these originals away just because I'd rather get the book out there. I know that I'm going to be excited when the new ones are here and new covers. So these will quickly become outdated. So I thought, you know what, Actually, we'll give Heather credit. She said, hey, why don't we do some live events and you can sign them if somebody attends live and whatever kind of contest we have for giving them away, that I'll sign them for you and then they'll put them in the mail and ship them off to you. So for the next 30 days, we're going to be giving away the original copies, not because they're bad books, but because we got fresh ones coming in. And as soon as I have the new ones here, I'm not going to want to send people the old ones. Right. So for the next 30 days, these will be given out to our followers, members, friends. And then we got some stickers. These got downsized too, kind of by accident. But then we opened them up today. I'm like, well, you know, that's kind of cool too. Right. The sticker we have now is perfect size for your iPhone or back of your iPad or whatever. So we got some new stickers as well. Okay. I swear, I'd make this short. So we need to mention subscribe to the to our channel. I don't say that a lot, but to get notified for the next 30 days of the giveaways. We're going to be doing specials, special trainings. Subscribe and click that little bell so you be notified when the next video comes out and share it. Like it Make a comment down below. We've been given to you guys and girls for a lot of stuff for years. I just ask for a favor in return. A like a comment a share. We work hard on this stuff. The links are down below. It's hogs 12 years online 3-1-2024 launched 3-1-202012 here we are 12 years later so here's the new ones. Come back tomorrow. We wouldn't be here without you. Whether you are a member, you're a subscriber, you clicked a like hell if you've clicked a dislike that's activity that helps too. So do us a favor like and share. Go down below for the freebies. Keep coming back and we'll see you next video. Peace out.