YouTube live video by Kenny Keller (Helicopter Online Ground School, "HOGS") describing procurement and hangar preparation for two used Hughes/Schweizer 269-series helicopters (one to be based at HOGS hangar, the other at a nearby Indiana location). Kenny explains HOGS will act as the maintenance base, describes hangar reconfiguration, upcoming pickup-and-move videos, an included parts inventory, and member-only flight training. He also promotes time-limited membership promotions (Halloween sale ending Oct 31), discount codes ("HALLOWEEN33" = 33% off monthly memberships; reference to "HALLOWEEN50"), a one-year 12-month-for-price-of-six offer, and a Pro Pilot 24-month package that includes six one-on-ones with Kenny. He mentions an update to the aerodynamics section of the private pilot course and that monthly membership list price is $97 (with 33% off ≈ $64).
Questions this video answers
Two used 269-series helicopters.
Indiana (one helicopter will be located with the owner in Indiana).
HOGS will be the maintenance base (parts and mechanic located at HOGS hangar).
October 31 (sale ends tomorrow night from the video date).
Monthly memberships are normally $97; with 33% off (~Halloween33) the price is approximately $64.
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All right. It says we're live. Hey. This is impromptu. Kenny with helicopter line ground school. Big news. We've been having trouble keeping our mouth shut for weeks or even months. We're cleaning today. It's Halloween eve, remember Our specials end tomorrow night. But why we're here. Everybody else is out getting ready for Halloween eve. And I'll be going out later. Heather's home putting makeup on, getting ready to go out and do whatever she's doing. I'm at the hangar with hangar dude, Jimmy hanger guy. Jimmy. We gotta come with the official title him for him. Now Jimmy's gonna be our shop. I call it shop hangar guy. General maintenance, helping clean the incoming helicopter. He's back there close in the back of the hangar. He's been all the way, all the way around this side of the hangar. Now he's going all the way around the back. So the new exciting news is we've been hinting towards is we got a helicopter coming and we've entered a deal with one of our hog super fans who has taken possession of two used 269 aircrafts. One will be located with him and the other will be located here at helicopter line ground school. And the exciting part is, let me check my phone in case there's an audio problem or something. Somebody's texting me. Oh, there's my member. Wish I could be online for the video, but I'm at a silly Halloween concert. So I'm at work. Jimmy's here getting the hanger clean. We're organizing. You probably see a different look now, right? Because normally you see me about right here. But what we did is we moved all of our studio equipment back as far as we could go. Because before when we had the instrument, you know, it would always in the background. It was over there. But we thought move the studio back. The helicopter can be right up front and center with the videos. Because the fun part is we're going to go pick up the one coming here. There's two helicopters. One will be located in Indiana at another location. And we're going to be the maintenance base. So hogs will have 269 here to use for flight training with members. And we're going to be the maintenance base. The mechanic doesn't live far away, which is really good for the gentleman that's putting this all together. A couple of our hogs pro members joined in as investors in this new opportunity. So we're excited about that and we're making it happen. So we're going to have A fun video coming up where we're going to go get to one of the helicopters. The one's flyable, the other has a new engine ready to go in it. So anyway, we're going to go. Most likely, you know, everything's subject to change, but very soon we'll do a video. When we go to pick up the aircraft, we're going to take the jeep and we're going to get us a trailer and we're going to go pick up the aircraft and bring it back here to the Hogs hangar and we'll do a series of videos of getting the aircraft back here. They're going to move all the parts down here. There's an excess, quite a good parts inventory that's coming along with these two helicopters, which is super exciting. Again, this will be the maintenance space where this one will always have the mechanic close by, all the parts here, and the Hogs member who have the other one. Whenever he needs something, he'll be able to fly up here with students, do cross country. He's not real far away, drop off one aircraft, pick up the other and take the other back with him. So we'll always have parts, mechanic, maintenance. We'll have this one ready to go. Jimmy that's here helping me today clean the hangar, will be helping me making sure the aircraft's clean and ready to go. And it's going to be a neat deal. It's going to be a neat deal. We love the instrument we had. Unfortunately, my good buddy had to sell it with the world changing and his life changing. And that was kind of a bummer. But we only had that part of the year. So now we're going to have a helicopter full time year round, which is nice. Right? Before it was always part of the year. Now we'll have flight training full time. So just to let you know what's going on. Yeah, we moved the studio back so that we can bring the used 269 here, have it close to the camera. We'll do some fun videos as we, you know, get the aircraft here and get it set up and get going. It'll be fun. And this way you still get the full view of the Hogs Wall of Fame and we'll still have some room back here if I want to grab a camera and come over and do some work with the Hogs Wall of Fame and do some presenting. You know, we got the cool shiny black, shiny glass, black new board that we've been using. Just started working with. This is going to be fun to Present with that. So we'll keep this area open on the other side of the helicopter so that we can still grab some cameras run over here if we want to highlight new members on the Hogs wall of fame. As I mentioned, Jimmy's back here getting things all cleaned up, washing down all the walls, getting it super clean before we start moving parts in, because the couple of trips, we're gonna go after the one aircraft that we'll bring back, and then they'll make another trip with probably a U haul to get all the excess parts and things that come along with the two aircraft. So it's an exciting deal. We'll make more official announcements in the meantime. But I just let this member know a little bit ago. I was excited. We're in here cleaning the shop, and, you know, people are texting me. Everybody's going out, and I'm like, you know, that's the life of an entrepreneur. Everybody else is getting ready to go out and have fun. What we're doing, we're working. But you know what? It's cool. It's fun. It's fun. Being at the Hogs hangar. I had to turn the music down. Van Halen Running with the Devil was playing. I'm like, you know what? I'm flipping the camera on and I'm going live. So just wanted you all to know what's going on. Let me look here. I'll walk around here and see if there's. If there's anybody here, see we got any questions. Oh, Kevin Willey. Congrats. Thanks. Awesome. So eight viewers here. All right, so I'll wrap it up. I just wanted to put the news out there, and the helicopter will be a member. Only thing, we're not going to just fly with the general public that somebody wants to come in. It'll be a setup situation where if you're a Hogs member, you know, we'll communicate with you before you arrive, see where you're at with your ground. Because there's no use coming if your ground knowledge isn't up to par. Well, probably specialize on helping people finish up ratings, which is what I've been doing for 20 years anyway. You know, I was never intended to be the ground ground guy. This was all just happened out of circumstance. And I've made my career out of getting people past hurdles, getting people over stumbles, stumbling blocks. And usually what somebody needs is not that difficult to figure out. Usually when somebody's struggling, trying to get done to them, it's a mountain of overwhelm in front of them. And usually it only takes a few small things. When you really get to know somebody and get talking to them and get flying with them, you know, you usually can figure out where it is that they're having some trouble. And it's normally for the average person having trouble, it's normally pretty, I almost want to say easy to get them steered in the right direction. So we'll do different types of training but we're going to really be looking at doing a lot of finish work. You're somewhere you've been trying to get a rating done and it just ain't happening because you can't line up the examiners or your instructors keep moving on to other jobs or the aircraft's broke or you're not getting the ground school you need. I have a member who joined for our one on one where I do six one on ones with you with the propilot special that's available now@helopterground.com we had our first one on one the other day and it was awesome. We had a great one hour thing. They're 45 minutes. But we went a little over that day and I was able to help him a lot just from him telling me where he was struggling. I had just some little tips, easy things, not nothing earth shattering, but just some small tips. And by the end he's like, you know what, I'm going to use those on my next flight. And I'm anxious for him to report back after he goes to fly again with his instructor. Hopefully those tips really kind of made some changes. They were very simple but things that he was kind of overlooking. So we have Halloween sale ending tomorrow night. Go to helicopterground.com that link is down below the video. There's also a link for. Well, there's the code. Halloween 33 is 33% off any monthly membership. That's private, commercial, CFI, instrument. Those are all monthly. They all come with a 24 hour test flight and with a 33% discount. I can tell you this, today I went to the store and I got eggs and I got Tide and I got coffee and it was $45 walking up CVS for three simple items I needed at home for the weekend. So at our monthly. Monthly memberships are normally 97 with the 33% discount it comes out to like $64. It's dirt cheap and you can keep that as long as you want to keep it. If you're a current member you can unsubscribe sign back up with a discount. If you're returning. You want to come back, you can come back with a discount. If you're brand new and you want to check it out, you get 24 hours to try it. If you don't like it, unsubscribe, we part as friends. Otherwise just keep it. Pay the discount for as long as you keep the course. And then we've got a special on one year of membership, 12 months. And this is only a one time billing. You won't be billed again. You'll get 12 months access for the price of six. That's a great deal that's on our site. And then I've had two takers so far on our Pro Pilot 24 month 6 one on ones with me. I have two takers so far. We're almost to Halloween Eve so I can take another one or two. We'll have to cut it off at some point because I can't with everything else going on. I can't be on Zoom all day long but have time a couple hours a day to get on with people. So those specials are on our site helicoptergrun.com and there's a link down below I believe just for that specific one. There's a link down there for the new study guide. So exciting stuff happened at hogs. I just wanted to share that tonight because we're having a good time in here. It's always fun when you come into the hangar and turn up the music and get busy physically doing something. Whether it's cleaning the hangar or working on helicopters or making videos or building projects like we've been doing the last three weeks. We have updated the entire aerodynamics section inside the private pilot. Highly recommend you jump on board. You know the cost right now is like running a CVS and getting a few items for the weekend. So. So sale ends tomorrow night, October 31st. Halloween 33 is one code, Halloween 50 is the other code. And then you can go right to the site also for the 24 month profile special with 6:1 on ones where I'll get on with you and we'll kind of digest where you're at, figure out what you need and see what we can do to help you get along that path. No matter where you're at, wherever you're at through that flying career, whatever you're doing, we're going to help you out. So shop dude, Jimmy's in the back making noise. I'm going to sign out 10/31helopterground.com See you in the next video. Peace out.
