Helicopter Check Ride Passed With Flying Colors

Commercial pilot. Thank you. Awesome. So your text said, one of the best the check examiner's had in a long time.

Eh, he said it's best he's had in a while. He said it again then in front of Bruce.

Awesome. You want to get the heck out of here?

Yeah.

You've been here for seven days. Plan on five real quick. Ground school helped you a bunch, apparently, right? It helped me a bunch. Yeah. I probably wouldn't have done it this quick without helicopter online ground school. Awesome. What'd you think of our examiner? He was real cool, Real easy to work with. Awesome. All right, well, I'll let you get your stuff rounded up. I know you want to get the heck out of here. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

We don't take them over unless they're gonna pass. Now, if you already sent them other logs.

A little behind the scenes again while we're live. We're live right now. We were really super excited to add this today. We got a picture that Gary sent to me on the phone on the way back from Toledo after the checkride. I knew they'd passed, so we ran downstairs and edited up a video real quick so that I could roll a video of them landing right before going live. So that was cool. Again, thrilled to have, you know, multiple people helping me versus me doing it alone anymore. I can catch the fun of somebody coming back from a checkride. So we may just go ahead and roll the live training Tuesday in this vlog, but hopefully you've enjoyed them. We're gonna take a break from for a couple days because that's just because.

It'S a lot of work. I've never seen you work so hard.

It is a lot of work, and I'm burn out. And there is Heather taking your comments today. Make sure you let us know who you are, where you're from. Put your questions in there, and Heather's gonna keep track of them for us. We can answer your questions. And here is Gary Cleveland. He just landed. We just edited a video. The video you just watched. We just edited that in the last few seconds. They landed at, what, 12:30. Shot the video real fast. Come up here and did some editing. Right here's the picture. Bruce just got his commercial rating. And I'm gonna let Gary fill you in on it because he was there, I was here, getting everything ready to go. We've done a series of videos this week. Hoggs vlog. So go back if you want to start the beginning. There's a link below this video. You can check out our hogs Vlog. We've been doing some behind the scenes stuff just for fun. Us goofing around in here, plus telling the story of Bruce getting ready. And we had the maintenance issue, we had the weather issue. So it's all kind of good stuff. So they just landed. This is a picture Gary sent me on the phone. So I got it up and ready to go. He texted me the landing time so I could run out there with a camera and catch him landing. And this is fun because I worked alone for so long that I could never capture things that I really wanted to capture. And that's one nice thing about having Gary here and having two of us and having Heather helping and Chris jumping in and guest instructors, because now I get to do some of the stuff that I want to do, capture some of these stories. So you want to give everybody a little background on Bruce before we get started with your sectional charts.

So Bruce wants to be an agriculture spray pilot like a couple other others that we trained out of Illinois. Bruce is actually from Arkansas, but he will be working with Norman up in Illinois with that agriculture spray outfit. He's a private fixed wing pilot and he just went straight to commercial helicopter today. And after some trials and tribulations of having a mag failure was that on Friday. And then we had a check ride scheduled for Monday morning and we just had horrible weather with threatening icing conditions going on. So we rescheduled it for this morning. And we met here at the airport at 5:30 and flew over there to meet the examiner at 8. So we were all there at 7:30. Got going a little early on it. The examiner always steps out after the oral while the student's packing up his books and things and kind of gives me a nod. And he came over and said he knows his stuff. He said it's one of the best orals that he has had in a long time. And so here come Bruce out of the room and I give him a thumbs up that I had just gotten some good feedback there. Then he went out and was pre flighting and come back in. They finished up a couple of pre flight questions that the examiner wanted to ask them and then they went out, looked the aircraft over together and they flew for just under an hour again. The examiner always makes his way back into the FBO before the A student and he says, man, he said he's a good pilot. He says what is he wanting to do with his rating? And I said he just wants to be an agriculture sprayer. And he said he's talented. I really Hope he does more than that in his flying career. He said that's one of the best check rides I've done in a while.

And he does a lot of check rides, a lot of check rides and he's been doing them for over 25 years.

So he really wanted to give Bruce a pat on the back. But he said I haven't told him he passed yet. He says, let me tell him. So yeah, it went really well and made it back here just in time to shoot a quick video before live training Tuesday so we could show you another checkride success.

Yeah, and it's fun for me again. I'm glad that this week I've been able to shoot some behind the scenes stuff that's below. If you want to check the Hogs vlog, go to that link. Start with introduction. And so that does make seven videos. And Bruce came from kind of a family or a group of people you mentioned already and they all came here to finish their rating. But they all used ground school videos before coming here to cement their knowledge. And that's what we require here is you become a member before you come and go through all the videos. But hey, if you're not a member yet, take our 24 hour free trial. All of our memberships, private commercial CFI instrument. You can go in for 24 hours, see our entire training, not just a, not just a portion of it. You can see our whole entire site. Sign up, no charge with your credit card. Take out your credit card before the 24 hours is up and you'll never be billed anything. So we're getting ready to celebrate six years online. We're the number one ground school, helicopter ground school on the web. There's nobody's going to beat us or catch us.

I think we are the only FAA certified for wings credits.

Yep. We have fa, the FAA wings program. We've been hitting it hard and doing so many things. So become a member, check out the private commercial CFI or instrument either monthly or yearly. There's no charge for the first 24 hours. And we know this because we've checked it. You will not be billed to like hour 25, 26, 27, take the test flight, see the whole entire site. If it's not for you, remove your credit card before the 24 hours and you billed nothing. Boom. Heli Expo. We are going to be at Heli Expo. We got our tickets confirmed. Brian and I will be there all three days. So hopefully we'll hook up with some of you. Subscribe to our channel if you haven't done that yet. Anything else going on we want to relay?

Well, there's a partnership that's going to be discussed at Heli Expo between Helicopter Online Ground School and HAI to sponsor our training for their members.

So that'll be cool. So we'll have more details on that after Heli Expo. We are going to shoot video down there, try to go live down there. Our helicopterground.com link is right below the video too, by the way, to take up our 24 hour test flight. Oh, and we have a 30 day money bag guarantee. No hassle. Okay, that was day six. That's of seven videos with the introduction to make seven videos. I promised seven videos that in kind of a vlog style. We're gonna wrap this up. I'm gonna edit this up, put this up. Hopefully you've enjoyed these. If you've liked these, please click the like button. If you disliked them, click the like button twice. Heather's over here editing up a new book, Top 10 Checkride Tips, which is gonna be just a small giveaway we might put on Amazon. Maybe it's just like a 99 cent book, but something kind of cool for you. I don't know what else is next. Let us know how you've liked these videos. Behind the scenes. We did, you know, let you see different angles and different things and us goofing off in the background. But it's only about 6:51pm so by the time I get done editing, I'm gonna leave at a reasonable time. Go get me a big draft beer. There you go. Since you're behind the scenes, that's the next step. So wave bye Heather.

Bye.

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