Kenny Keller is flying a Robinson R44 helicopter from Florida to Indiana and will document the journey. Helicopter Land Ground School is developing an FAA-approved CFI refresher course and has updated its private pilot training materials.
Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter land ground school. Just want to show you something here real quick. Oh, man, how can I. I guess I can do it this way. Gearing up for a flight to gonna go down to Florida, pick up an R44 and bring back to Indiana one of our customer, one of our members. So I got a cool camera bag, got everything fixed up and ready to go today. Trips in the past, it's always been kind of tough to it's always been kind of tough to haul your camera gear with you with the way I was trying to do it. So I got a nice bag all set up and getting ready to go. And I just wanted to share this with some of our followers and ground school members that are watching our YouTube channel. This is exciting because this is one of our helicopter land ground school members has a new Robinson R44. He wanted to come and train with us here in Indiana. So of course I'm packing all my gear up so that on the way we can not only shoot some video for fun, also try to shoot some segments that could be training segments for the helicopter land ground school. So I'm really excited that we're getting to make this trip that this ground school member wants to bring his R44 back here. And it's going to be Gary and I and then my daughter and her friends going to go with. And my daughter was in a lot of our videos when she was younger and now she's in that teenage years where she never wants to be on camera. So hopefully she's going to let us appear in the videos for those that haven't seen her in a long time. And I want to make a couple other announcements. We've been quiet this month. We haven't put out many videos. We haven't been doing our live training Tuesdays just because we've been so stinking busy behind the scenes with everything else we got going on. Gary has been developing a certified flight instructor refresher clinic online. And we talked to the FAA a couple months ago we got this started. We spent two hours on the phone with the FAA and they were excited to help us try to get something going because as many of you know, the CFI online refresher courses out there are airplane courses with a little bit of helicopter stuff tacked in there. And we'll start to have some airplane stuff in there. But this will be geared for helicopter. CFI and the FAA agreed. Yes, we think this is a great idea. So Gary's been really hard at work putting all this together, getting all the approval, working on some software that we needed to add to our site to set up the timer so that you know you're on a subject for so many minutes, just like everybody else has. But this is pretty big and we're really excited about it. And I hadn't mentioned anything previously because I just wanted to make sure it was really going to come, come to light. And we're pretty confident now it's gonna come through and it's gonna be a cool deal. So we're excited about that that's coming. Certified flight instructor helicopter online refresher course built for helicopter CFIs by helicopter CFIs, not an airplane supplement. Sorry, airplane competitors that just keep putting your training out there and attacking helicopter supplement on the end. Sorry, excuse me. And we've been making a bunch of additions to the private pilot section. In the last two weeks, we've uploaded probably 10 new videos. Brian Rutledge, who is our operations manager, has been going through the private section step by step, going, that's good, that's good. You know what? We need an update here. This is good, this is good. Oh, what? You know what? This detail got left out of this video, really. Going through and scrutinizing the private pilot and finding all those little nuances of little things that maybe we left out or maybe a reg has changed, which not many regs change that often. But he's been going through it step by step. So he's responsible for going through and giving us a list of changes. And then we go through and either make new videos, spruce up an old video, or make a new section. So we're really excited about that. For those that you don't know who Brian Rutledge is, 30 year aviator, chief pilot and chief flight instructor for a law enforcement agency out in California. And here's my daughter in the background with a goofy haircut trying to make me laugh. And so anyway, Brian's been hard at work at that Gary and I've been working hard on the videos we just finished up. Jack Day, who came all the way from Mississippi to do his rating. He'd been working on rating for eight years, came up here and we had him done in a couple weeks. So we just want to give you some insight on why we haven't uploaded this much. Haven't uploaded much this month. We just haven't had time. We've been so busy rendering stuff for the new site, work on the new online instructor refresher course. So we'll have that coming up for you. And then of course, for this Florida trip, we'll do as much as we can, hopefully do some live stuff, and then have some cool video to put together for a little vlog of our trip. So if you're not a member yet of our ground school, you can go to helicopterground.com that link will be down below in the video shortly. As soon as I get done finishing it up, subscribe to our channel if you want to keep track of future helicopter updates and subscribe. Click that little bell so you can become a subscriber and be notified when we put out new videos. Put any comments down below about helicopter training. Anything you want to know about that we can answer for you. Anything about our ground school. So like, subscribe, comment down below, leave us your questions and we will see the next video. Can you stop that for me, Gloria? See you the next video.
