Episode 404: What is the Best Way to Prepare for a Helicopter Check-Ride?

Any questions? Ali T. And they want to know the best way to prepare for a check ride. Oh, great question. Best way to prepare for checkride. So sign up for helicopter online ground school. That's it. No, there's more than that. We help you. That's what we are. We're helicopter on ground school. We help with all the ratings. We help you get through the ground subjects, everything. Flying tips, talk about the maneuvers, and we have quizzes and we have FAA written test practice in each one of those courses as well. That helps you Prepare for the FAA written test. Been online 14 years. That's what we help people do. Right? Here's your key. How do I get ready for a checkride? Answer this for me. When you're at the point where you're asking the question, would you have thought of this? Are you flying? And has anybody introduced this to you? Seems like this is a common theme that keeps coming up every day in chat. But that's the reason it keeps coming up, because there's a lot of people, applicants not using it, don't even have it. If you don't have one, there's the first thing that's going wrong for you. You, you need your own copy of this. And the instructor that you're working with, I don't care what rating it is. Your instructor should be doing this and going through this. Because when you sit down with the examiner, they're pulling their questions for the test from the airman certification standards. Okay? Our examiner, he has his own binder, and it says plan of action on the front. And he explains during the test to the applicant, and while I'm sitting there, before they get started, he said, you know, I have a plan of action. My plan of action I have pulled from the airman certification standards. And he adds to that, his plan of action. He adds the areas that you were deficient on your written test, he looks at those prior to your checkride because that information's embedded in the faa. And he's going to pose specific questions that pertain to those areas where you missed a question on the written test. There's no secret to it. You go through the book step by step, and some people say, well, the answers aren't there. Well, no, that's not the point. The answers aren't here. The subjects are here. So as you work through here, example, let's just start reading them. The applicant demonstrates understanding of certification requirements, most recent flight or recent flight experience and record keeping. So that means they're going to say, what do you have to have on you when you go fly? What do you got you to keep your license current? What's the aircraft have to do to be current? What do you got to do for a flight review? What things do you have to put in your logbook? Okay, so it's telling you the area that the examiner is going to cover. So if you go, I'm good on certification requirements, but I'm not sure on recent flight experience, then you go to whichever other resource you're using, whether it's HOGS or the FAR AIM manual or whatever references you have, you go seek out that that topic, read about it, learn about it, and then go back to the pts or I'm sorry, acs. So that right there is the number one way to get ready for a check ride. Acs. If you're not using it, you should be going through it. And number two, you should sign up for a HOGS membership. HOGS Wall of Fame. Back here, I wanted to make a video real quick before we went live. I wanted to show you and I ran out of time. Back behind me is what we call the HOGS Wall of Fame. You can see it a little bit in the camera. Back there on the wall is private, commercial, instrument and certified flight instructor. All those pictures that you see revolving back there, they're all HOGS members that have passed a little example, a private pilot test. And they've sent in a quick short description like, hey, I couldn't have done it without hogs. You know, it helped me with the aerodynamics or it helped me, you know, because I'm a visual learner. The videos helped whatever, however we helped you. They send in a picture, excited about their checkride, and then we send them the HOGS no go button. So you get to go up on the HOGS Wall of Fame and we'll highlight you up there. And we send you the no go button after passing the checkride. And our clone is located@askhogs.com you can go below and click on the link to go check it out. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can ask training related questions. Flight and ground. 14 years of my contents loaded in this thing. Blogs, podcasts, videos, paid content, free content. There's over 6 million words piped into my clone. It's amazing. Go down below ask hogs.com the clone is free to everyone. And the clone is also inside of our HOG site on every video, every page. So you can be in viewing videos and you can always ask the clone a question while you're at it. So you can get an immediate answer first. Right here is free free PDF private pilot 101 helicopter training blueprint. That's why we created this. And let me cover what's in the first chapter. Since you ask and you're at the beginning. That's why we created this. The first chapter are questions that we've. We took like the top 10 questions that we get all the time. Like is learning how to fly a helicopter difficult? How long will it take to become a private pilot? How much will it cost to become a private pilot? What is the best approach to selecting a flight school? What are the key differences between helicopters and fixed wing aircraft? How many tests will I have to take? How many hours for solo on the license? Kenny's recommended training supplies. So this is absolutely 100% free. You can go down below, there's a link down below. Or you can type in your browser privateblueprint.com and you can download immediately after you sign up. You'll sign up, enter your name and email and the next page will show you download your book here. That's where you should start because again it's free. Or subscribe to the YouTube channel. Subscribe the channel. You'll get notification when the new video comes out for either the live or the premiere, whichever way we do it. And then we want to also bring up. We are updating and starting to update our R22 specific course behind us. Course behind us Course using the helicopter behind us. Lindsay's in charge of getting in there and updating some images. In the R22 site section of Hogs. We have R22 specific section and an R44 specific section that come with any of our memberships. So you don't have to buy that. Specifically we use private pilot, for example, monthly membership. It has both the R22 and R44 sections in there. And since we have an R22 available to us and an R44 available to us, we thought why not get the content updated in those courses with some fresh videos, brushed images and also want to mention hogspaysme.com this is passive income. You want to earn some money, particularly if you're a flight instructor. Anybody can use the Hogs affiliate link. You go to hogspayme.com that link is down below. You'll sign up for it. It'll give you access to a dashboard inside that you'll see your link and a link to share with others. So when they sign up, you receive 50% off our online memberships. Private Pilot, commercial pilot, instrument pilot, certified flight instructor and or private or professional pilot, that's 2,800 bucks. If you share your link with one of your students and they buy Propilot, it's lifetime membership for all courses. You will get $1400 shipped to your PayPal account. After the 30 days, we got two aircraft and a lot of people going, well, I want to. Well, I'm gonna. Well, that's when everybody's gonna start wanting those times. So to speed the process along, we need to get some workbook for these helicopters. Both of them are sitting, currently not flying, and they're both ready to go. So reach out to Hogsmember support 574-767-1797. If you'd like to get on the schedule for some training. We specialize in check rides, finish the people up. But we can also do, you know, Sfar checkouts. Again, you can come in for one day, two days, whatever you need, or you need a block of time. We'd even be willing to work your little deal this time of the year to get some time on these aircraft. So again, reach out to Hogsmember support 574-767-1797. 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.