Get after that Helicopter Pilot Rating in 2020

All right, our Christmas and New Year cell is on and there's your full shot of the full Hogs Wall of fame. We're all caught up except for the couple down in the corner on the right. And then we've got a couple more pictures that came in over the weekend. So we want to announce is a Christmas sale through New Year's day at midnight on helicopter line ground school. On our monthly membership we're going to bring back the unlimited through this special cell and also on the professional pilot membership, we just wanted to take that real quick look and let you see the whole Hogs wall of fame. We are so proud of this. It's so incredible. So if you're working on some type of a helicopter rating, private commercial, CFI or instrument, I feel your pain. I failed my first checkride 20 years ago now, over 20 years ago, and I went home with my tail between my legs and it sucked. And I know how bad it sucks to fail. I also know about how bad it sucks to try to get through this whole great big huge pile of information that you're going through to try to become a helicopter pilot. It's overwhelming. And these days now with, you know, not only all the books, Far AIM manual and written test prep and private pilot manual and then you've got apps and you've joined this site and you've got that. There's all kinds of things that you can use now. But then you get overwhelmed, right? And I'm studying here and you're jumping around. We can guide you through this because I've been through it. I know exactly how it happens. It sucks, right? But good news is we can help you. I failed my first checkride and struggled all through my ratings. But the good news is after that first failure, I didn't want to fail again. I sat down, created my own notebook and I took every single piece of information for every rating that I had that I had trouble remembering along with a lot of other stuff. So not only did I just study the normal books, I also studied my notebook where I wrote down things that I had struggled, that I had struggled to learn. And once I got teaching, we joked early on about my students would say, man, you should start your own training manual. It was a joke in the beginning, but it came reality. March 1, 2012 so March 1, 2020, we'll be celebrating eight years online and you can see it. We have all these members that have sent in their pictures because they're so thrilled once they've passed, we help you with the written Test, we help you with the oral test, we help you with the flight test. Sure, we're not in the helicopter with you, but we go through a series of videos, even just on maneuvers, and talk about the types of things that are going to happen during a checkride, the things that examiner is going to ask you to do, what he's going to expect you or how he's going to expect you to perform. So what we have special for you is Christmas sale last through New Year's Day, and it's going to expire New Year's Day at midnight. And I believe that is, I believe we set it up for time. I believe 35% off. You can get that off of the first month of our monthly membership. At the private level, it's only 49 bucks. So you can get 35% off that first month. Or if you'd like the unlimited package on, we'll say private pilot that never expires. We took that away a couple years ago. We stopped selling it. We've only brought it back, I think, one other time on a holiday, maybe twice. So this is special. We're bringing it back. And that button you will see on the options for private pilot, commercial pilot, certified flight instructor and instrument, you'll see an unlimited option that's not normally on the page that will go away midnight New Year's Day. So the code you're going to need when you go to our site for any one of our memberships is Xmas 35. Xmas 35. You put that in the coupon box and it should show you then the discounted price. So again, this is off the first month of the monthly, if you like, the unlimited package on private commercial instrument or CFI only available to New Year's Day. And then we also have a big professional pilot package which includes private, commercial, CFI and instrument. That's the only way you can get instrument with all other three courses is the professional pilot. So I'll back up just a minute. Private is standalone by itself. Commercial membership includes private, certified flight instructor includes commercial and includes private. So you've got the monthly option. The unlimited never goes away, but it's only for the cell. It goes away New Year's Day, midnight. The instrument is a standalone course. You can do just the instrument monthly or unlimited. Or if you go for the big professional pilot package, and that's geared for those of you that are going to be going through these ratings all the way from private pilot all the way to instructor, and you're going to need that instrument Rating for a lot of jobs. That's why we created the Professional Pilot. So with the Professional Pilot membership, you have private, you have commercial, you have instrument, you have certified flight instructor, you have, and that never expires. So if it takes you one year to get through your ratings, great. If it takes you four years to get through your ratings, great. It is there for you. The monthly membership. The cool thing about that is you can join on a monthly membership, keep as long as you like, cancel anytime. So starting off for the monthly, you get 35% off the first month and if you're done after three weeks, simply remove your credit card from Settings or go into PayPal and end your subscription in there and you'll be done. That'll be it. You will not be billed again. And so next I want to tell you about why there's, there's no risk here. We have a 30 day money back, ironclad, no hassle money back guarantee on any single membership. That's a full 30 days. You can try out any of our courses and if you decide it's not 100% right for you, you ask for a simple refund through email or you can text us, give us a call, whatever, doesn't matter, don't have to give us a big long, you know, reason and apologize. If it's not right for you at this time, it's not right for you. The other beauty is so many times we have members that come back. We have people that come in, use our training for a month or two on the monthly and sometimes they'll say, hey, I'm taking a little break, I got a medical problem or whatever, but I'll be back. And many times they do come back. And then also we have members that come in and do the private for a few months, they take a break and then you see them come back and they come back for commercial or they come back for their instrument. It's a very common theme now since we launched monthly memberships just about two and a half years ago and we've watched it happen and that's why we introduced a monthly because depending on what your budget is, we have an option for you whether it's monthly or whether you want to say, go for the private pilot on the unlimited, let's go example there. We have a lot of private owners that like to buy our training and they want to keep it because they like to go back and review occasionally just to go in and refresh their mind. Because a lot of times a private owner said a flight, he's not at a flight school. A lot owns his own aircraft, keeps it at home or keeps it at the local airport. A lot of private or private owners, yes, will use our training to help keep themselves current. So with like private pilot unlimited doesn't expire. So if that works for you, you only pay one time and it never goes away. But again, that unlimited is only through December 1st. Then if you're going to go more advanced route the commercial or if you're going to need the instrument, professional pilot is the next answer. And again, that's a one time fee that never expires. The training will be there for you and with a 30 day money back guarantee, the burden's on us to provide you the value. It's not the other way around. And we've stuck by that guarantee since we went live March 1, 2012. And a lot of people told me, man, I wouldn't do that. They can go in and use your training for 29 days and then ask for a refund and then you got to give them all their money back and they used your whole training. And I'm like, is what it is, right? We have very few refunds and the business is built on us providing you the value. So it is a 30 day, no hassle money back guarantee. Not 32 days, not 67 days. 29 days is ample time to get in there, view the training. We have a new mobile app that you can download once you sign up for the site. Once you go inside, there will be an icon that you can click on and download our mobile app. And that has proved worth its weight in gold. People are absolutely digging it. That's available for you as long as you're a member as well. So go to helicopterground.com or if wherever you're at, you see a link nearby, click on that link, you can view all the memberships. The code again is XMAS35. XMAS35. Enter that code in the coupon box and then that will reveal the discounted price for you. Available through New Year's day at midnight and again I believe that specific time. So I'm going to have Heather follow me over this way over to the Hogs Wall of Fame. Okay, so I'm going to give you a little taste of our helicopter online ground school Wall of Fame. And I'm not going to tell you every single one, but we're going to hit this section of the wall. We got John Jansen, private pilot, Jason Seat, private pilot Nathan Loradine, private pilot Paul Veselescu, Private pilot. And then we have examples of where someone's used our training for all their readings. So we're going to use Chris Hadlock right here. He did his private. Then here he is again as commercial. And then here he is the instrument pilot. And there he is again, a certified flight instructor. We got Michael Noble, Mike Murphy, Michael McNamara, Matthew Stolfuts, Mason Vandermeer, Mark Hofritz, Roy Diaz Rodriguez. I've met Roy at Heli Expo. That was awesome. We mentioned Chris Lorenzo. Lorenzo was in is in some of our training and he was in one of the books that I did where we transcribed Lorenzo's checkride and he had such a great story. He came from overseas and was learning the English language as he was learning to become a private pilot. And now he's out working in the industry. Last I knew he was flying like an MD500 and he was actually in the area lately I missed him, but he's out working in the world. We got Jordan. Dream on. Lance Easterling, Kenny Gingrich, John Magin, Jim Ply, Jim Ply, Jim Hardy, Kyle Parish. Gotta mention Kyle. There's so many good stories but to make this the video doesn't go on for four hours. Kyle is a young man we met at Heli Expo two or three years ago at Heli Expo and I hooked him up with a flight school down in Tennessee. He used our ground school and went from. He had his private. He went from private double line. In six months they gave him a job and a year or two later he's in New York flying New York City flying tours. Awesome success story. And you'll see Kyle in quite a few of our videos. As a matter of fact, right after I get done with this section of the wall, I'll roll a couple of these including Kyle and Jordan and a couple others that are in there that where you could see where they just excited. Not only do they send in their pictures, they send in videos because they're so excited in the moment. John Booth, Jonathan Wolf, Sam Daughtry. God, so many cool stories. Sam is on here several times. Sam is a commercial fixed wing pilot, flies for FedEx and he's sent us pictures hanging out the window of the 747 or whatever that he's flying with a helicopter land ground school picture hanging out the side. He's used our training for all ratings with an only thing he used was FAA publications. He said I use nothing else but helicopter lane ground school and like the FAR AIM manual and the different FAA manuals that you really have to have Renee Surprise. Rob Willard, Rich Nuttall, Roman Duco, Lee Hilty, Sam. I just mentioned Ryan Minden, Terry McDonnell, Sean Cagle, Scott Scavenarik, Sariah Elsmore, Mike Rentschler, Tim Broughton, Tim Ashley, Timothy Moore, Tim Holder, Timothy Moore, Todd Berry. Another one you'll see, I think in a video coming up. That picture is from the video and it's so cool. He comes on, he literally gets his license, goes up by the helicopter, makes us a video. And he's still breathing heavy because he's so excited from running outside with his video camera and wanted to share with us. And I'm going to roll that video here in just a minute. So actually that's. That's a. That's a portion of the wall. I could. I could just keep going down and tell you the story after story after story. Flipping absolutely amazing. Let's. I'll go ahead and just let Heather pan down the wall so you can see the whole thing. And I'm gonna roll a video. Some of our members that have sent us in video. So let's roll that now.

Hey, this is Todd Berry in Manassas Airport in Northern Virginia. I just wanted to shout out to Kenny, Gary, Taz, Chris, and 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 Hoggs and Helicopter Online Ground School. Thanks, guys.

Stop by and see us.

Absolutely. Well, I did it with Hogs and I can't thank Kenny and Gary 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. Get me prepared and making sure that I have the right knowledge and 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.

Hey, Hogs, this is Kyle. It is July 18th. Just passed my Internet Trek ride and just want to say I wouldn't have done it without y'.

All.

Just want to thank everybody for helping me out and shout out to Taz for always hearing me writing him and complaining to him, you know, Kenny, for reaching out and I'll be all done. Everybody else in the video that helped, so I thank y' all and would make a better video, but I'm tired, but 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, the PowerPoints and the in cockpit footage, the out of 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 it helped me out tremendously. And I cannot thank Kenny.

This is Kyle back again. It is July 19th. I just did my commercial, got my commercial rating to say thank you for all you've done. Say thanks to 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. Everybody put in on a 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. I have to do a lot of training with the students and get them up to 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. An awesome job on Kenny's part. Great job, fellas.

William here at Seviera county choppers in Sevierville, Tennessee. Just want to let you know over the weekend, November 10th 11th. Yeah, one of the days I completed my C5C of double. I. I just want to say thank you for all the help that I did. For me, Hoggs is more than just an online ground school. It's. 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 that 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 their students CFI and cfoi.

This is Nick.

What's going on, Hogs?

So say thank you and have a good day.

So thank you again. That's awesome. Yeah.

I found your site the same way a lot of other people do. The first school I attended 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 watched that section in great repetition and it just. I can still hear the words. I mean, if you're just reading through the poh. As simple as.

It was nice. I know.

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 check ride. 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 the 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, you know, we all have things to do and trying to get our schedules lined up. Yep, 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.

And.

I thought, well, maybe Kenny can help me out trying to get this thing. Get this thing done. I'm getting. 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. Your videos clear it up and it.

Works, and it works for me. Yep.

So I'm already doing the commercial now.

Yep. He's gonna go back.

Hello, my name is Jason, and I'm coming to you from high atop the city in Atlanta, Georgia. I just wanted to talk to you today about helicopter online ground school. I got the course about two months ago, and I started working my way through it. And then, of course, the last week before the checkride, I kind of was freaking out. And so I did a lot of cramming with it, and I was really concerned about the oral part of my checkride. I felt like I could do the maneuvers and things, but I was really concerned about the oral. The course is very comprehensive. It goes over everything you're going to need to know. In fact, it helped me quite a bit with my written and on my oral, I passed it with flying colors. In fact, I was in the Oral with a guy who he was going for his commercial and I felt like I could answer probably 95% of the questions that he was being asked. So it's going to completely prepare you to get your private pilot's license. So I highly recommend it and I'm really excited because I just got mine yesterday. Here it is right here, my temporary airman certificate. And so I hope to see see you on the inside of the members.

Area and I hope so our member videos and our members sending in the pictures. Absolutely awesome. I just had a guy walk in today, lives near where I live and we'd never met and he just knocked on the door because he's a pilot, fixed wing pilot down the way and he's like hey, I heard what you guys are doing in here and saw our studio and immediately he's like what are all those pictures over there? And I said oh, that's our HOGS Wall of fame. He's like, what, what do you do? I told him about our online ground school and he had no idea, right? He just knew there was some helicopter guy in here and he just was enthralled by the story, right? And I started telling him, he's like, I had no idea you were in here doing this. And I'm like, yeah, been doing it eight years. So we couldn't be more proud than our new studio, the new HOGS Wall of Fame. Everything we've been able to do online is just absolutely amazing. So one more time. We do have FAA written test practice in each course. We help you prepare for the written, we help you prepare for the oral. We help you prepare for flight. All of those ratings cell ends New Year's Day at midnight Pacific time. The code is Xmas35. Find the link around this video to go right to our site or if you don't see, if you don't see the link or a button, just go to helicopterground.com and you will see all of our courses on the home page and you can kind of click around and look and, and I'll put the details on the special cell. But you know the burden is on us to provide, provide you the value and we want to do a Christmas sale and put up some Christmas lights. You know, got in the Christmas spirit just because we're not only excited about Christmas but excited about the strength of online ground school and what we've been able to do. And I've, I've amazed myself it's amount of people that we've been able to help and it all stems from my failure that hurt so bad and sent me home with my tailbone in my legs where I didn't go back for six months. And then something inside of me clicked one day and I'm like, I gotta go back and finish this. And I went and bought a notebook and I sat down and applied myself to every single rating after that. So my failure was a good thing that happened to me as much as much as it hurt at the time. Years later, it's why I'm here doing this and I absolutely love it. I still fly as well but helicopter land ground school is our full time job here. It's not a sideline. We are full time helicopter only ground school. So I'm going to wrap it up. Go to that button or go to helicopterground.com type in Xmas35. Check out the discount. Email me with any questions@kennyelicopterground.com I'll get back to you as soon as possible over the holidays might take a day or two depending on when you email me but you got till midnight New Year's day, midnight, you know I'm saying so have a merry Christmas. We're welcome them in 2020 gonna be eight years online. It's gonna be freaking amazing. So we'll see you on the next move. Next video.