Episode 366: Make Easy Money Even If You’re a Broke Instructor $$$
22 Nov 2025 · 4 min
Kenny Keller pitches an affiliate program for HOGS Helicopter Ground School. Flight instructors earn 50% recurring commissions: $97/month subscriptions or $1,400 per $2,800 Pro Pilot course sale. PayPal payments arrive 30 days after the refund window closes.
Questions this episode answers
50% recurring commission.
$97 per month (quoted as "97 a month").
Pro Pilot full price: $2,800; affiliate payout example: $1,400.
Via PayPal only.
Payments are issued on a 30-day cycle after clearing a 30-day refund point.
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So my instructor for my commercial, his name was Dan Luby. Hey, Dan, are you still out there? I remember going into the airport and he had this freaking bag of animal crackers that look like this, right? Because that's what he was eating. He was eating animal crackers. That was breakfast, lunch and dinner because he didn't have any money. And the cheapest thing he'd go buy in bulk was animal crackers. So we know you're out there, you're driving a positive. You're eating animal crackers, you're eating ramen, or you're going hungry because you don't have enough money to pay your bills because you're a new flight instructor getting paid 20 bucks an hour. And maybe you fly Wednesday and you get canceled on Tuesday and Thursday and then Friday the helicopter breaks so you don't have any money, you're not hardly eating because you have nothing. We have a remedy for that. We have 50% commissions for anybody out there. But instructors were gearing this towards. Because we know you're starving, you don't have any money at all. Fellow HOGS members, anybody who wants to be affiliate, I'm going to put a link down below. You can go to that link, sign up as an affiliate and we pay you 50%. 50% of a monthly commission that comes in. Somebody buys 20, say 97amonth is what our monthly is currently. Guess What? You get 50% of that every month. Our we've got several instructors that they had their affiliate link student bought a pro pilot for full price, 2,800. Those instructors got $1,400 sent to their PayPal account at the end of the month. I just asked Heather, I'm like, how much do you think we've sent out in commissions? She goes, I don't even know. I'm sure we can look it up. But over time, it's, trust me, it's in the thousands and thousands of dollars. It's a very simple process. Any questions we can take care of for you? But here's simply how it works. There's a link down below. You go to the affiliate, sign up, and you'll get your own portal, you'll get your own link. You share that link with your students and you just say, hey, you need some help with ground school? There's this thing you can use called Hogs Helicopter on ground school. Here's a link, sign up for my link. You can go month to month, cancel anytime, go back anytime. You could do pro, you can do yearly, whatever the case is. And these do all have a money back guarantee, by the way, but you give your students a link, they sign up at the end of each month, Heather sends out commissions. Now you have to have PayPal because our system is set up with PayPal. That's how we pay. We don't issue checks. It's PayPal because it's all in the system. So again, the beauty is when you go into your portal, you can tell, let's say John Doe signed up for private Pilot monthly. You can go in and you'll know, you'll know and we'll know, did your students sign up? That's why we pay in a cycle every 30 days so that we've cleared the 30 day refund point for any individual because 30 days is more than fair. And then you get paid each month. Flight instructors, tell your other buddy, flight instructors, we have quite a few, quite a few people using this, but we've had this in place for a couple years. And I can't believe more people haven't signed up for an affiliate program where they get paid 50% commission for as long as somebody keeps a course. Think about that. Some people keep a course for two, three, four years or more. That adds up to several thousand dollars over time. So it's recurring money, especially on a subscription. Flight instructors, or anybody else that wants to sign up for an affiliate, there's a link down below. Sign up on that link and you can always reach out to Heather at 574-767-1797 and she can answer anything you need to know because she's in charge of monitoring that and in charge of sending out those payments every month. You want to make some easy money. There's not very many opportunities that you can really make easy money. This is easy money. You sign up, get your affiliate link, share it with your students. Hey, use my link. Don't go direct to the hog site on its own because then you won't get credit. You have to give them your specific link that's assigned to your email and your name and then you get credit. That's it. 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.
Need a great big package of animal crackers.
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