Kenny Keller shares how one student earned his private helicopter pilot rating after a year of setbacks and instructor changes. The pilot reviewed the ground school material repeatedly, showed up on the first of the month, and passed his checkride by the tenth. Persistence and knowing when to switch instructors made the difference.
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An orange Robinson R44.
Over a year.
He arrived on the 1st of the month and completed the checkride on the 10th ("arrived on the 1st, today is the 10th").
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Hello, I'm Kenny Keller with the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and I wanted to do a short video on the drive and determination that it takes a lot of times to get your helicopter pilot rating. This gentleman here, the owner of this aircraft, this orange R44, has been a ground school member of ours for over a year. I've been communicating with him over time and he's been struggling to get the private rating done and there's lots of different reasons. He's had multiple instructors and instructors, a lot of the times will get a job before they're finish with you, or they have to leave for their EMS job, or they got to leave for their golf job and then they want to come back and work with you later. He just ran into a lot of struggles over time and he finally, a few weeks ago sent me an email and said, kenny, help. I want to finish this rating. And I just can't seem to get an instructor along with an examiner all set up to work. So I said, come on up and I'll get you your rating. He went through our ground school multiple times before coming up here. And that's what I pre warned him. I said, make sure you go through online ground school, make sure your knowledge good and when you get here, we'll do the best we can at getting you through it. He arrived on the 1st of this month, today is the 10th, and I'm happy to say we got his private pilot checkride done for him today. He did a great job. His knowledge was good, his flying was good when he got here, but he just needed somebody to really sit down with him, go through all the documentation, make sure he had all the requirements. So he went through his log books, made sure he had everything he needed, got all the requirements done, everything signed off properly, everything. And today we got his test and he was so thrilled and excited and I'm thrilled and excited for him. But he's an example of how you can have problems along the way. Whether it's problems with a helicopter, problems with an instructor, you know, there's multitudes of things that can get in your way, but if you stick with it and keep at it, you will get there. And it may take moving to a different flight school, it may take finding a different instructor. If it's not working out at the place you're flying, go somewhere else, find another flight school. So the point of it is if you want to get there, you can do it. This gentleman was but to the point of giving up. And what a shame it would have been if he just would have threw the towel in and said, heck with it, this is too hard, I'm spending too much money, I want to give up and I'm just not going to do it. Luckily, he called me, we got him up here and we got him finished up. So if you're struggling with the ground school, which a lot of people are, there's a link below this video helicopterground.com you can go to that link to learn more about our helicopter online ground school. So again, if you're struggling to get that rating, whichever rating it is private, commercial, cfi, stay after it, keep going and you'll get there.
