Kenny Keller, a helicopter pilot and instructor since 1997, launched an online ground school program March 1st. He argues that 75% of helicopter training happens on the ground, not in the air, and uses cockpit and classroom footage to teach the material.
1997.
Approximately 75% ground school and 25% flying.
Robinson, Schweitzer, Jet Ranger, BK117, EC135.
Five years.
I've been flying since 1997 and been lucky enough to fly the Robinson, the Schweitzer and instrument helicopters, all as a student and then an instructor as well. Invaluable experience. Early on in my training I went to the Robinson factory safety course. Do that if you get the chance. Some of the best money you will ever spend for some great, awesome training. One of my first jobs as an instructor, I later got to fly the Jet Ranger and do news Reporting, boat races, 135 charter, all kinds of stuff went in. Another valuable experience. Then I did five years as a helicopter EMS pilot. I got to fly the BK117, the EC135. Got to go out and land on roadways and rooftops and fly with night vision goggles. Another five years of experience, that's just absolutely invaluable. So I've been training for a long time and have quite a few different success stories. There's Jed, one of our students, who's went on to be a helicopter saw pilot and has an awesome crazy job. Very, very cool. There's Nick, who is now private owner of an aircraft. We've went out and had a lot of fun on a trip to put in bay. And there's Danny Martin, another one of our students. We had a blast on that trip. So we've designed. Oh, and then we have Jeff. Jeff was another one that I took from scratch from off the street to CFI and now he works for Columbus pd. Another, another cool story. So in our training I'm constantly going to be referring to the pts. We're building a presentation on the Robinson right now. Here's a couple things from our current training. You can just see there are some clips from the different things in our training we do cockpit video audio inside, outside the aircraft, we have some classroom footage and all these things we're going to be expanding on. So whether you want to fly for fun or you're looking for a helicopter pilot career later on, you got to have helicopter ground school. Ground school is what most people are lacking in. 25% of learning to fly is actually flying in the helicopter. 75% is the ground school. And you may be getting great instruction somewhere where you're flying now. Great ground instruction. And if you are, that's awesome because there is a lot of good training out there. But some of the places you go, maybe you're not getting the ground school that you need or maybe you just want some extra help. So if you're interested in our training, just click the button below and go in and get started. It.
