Helicopter Training Notebook I Created After My First Check Ride Failure

Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and author of the Amazon bestseller. And I wanted to talk to you a little bit about my helicopter training notebook that's on Amazon. I started this whole online ground school.

Due to this old beat up notebook.

That I have here that I try not to get out too much and I'm pretty careful with because it's pretty beat up. But this thing is what got me through all my ratings after my first checkride failure and turned into my second published book that's now on Amazon. And I realized I didn't have a very good video for my notebook. And I dug around and found a video from four years ago that I want to roll for you now because this is back in the beginning as I was building and getting ready to launch online Ground School.

So here is the infamous notebook. This, as you can see, back cover is gone. Little bit wore. I've used this thing maybe a couple times. And what I did with this notebook basically is I failed my first private pilot checkride. Like a lot of you guys know that I talk about it a lot. And that meant a lot because it was a struggle. It was upsetting to go home with my tail between my legs after all that time and effort to fail. It was pretty. It was pretty tough. So I went home and I didn't go back for six months. And when I decided to go back and hit it again, I knew that I hadn't studied enough the first time around. And I had all these multiple notebooks different. I had notes on this pad, notes on this pad. I had paper shoved in this book. And I was overwhelmed by the amount of different things that there was to sit and study. And I thought, you know what? I need a decent notebook. I need to put everything in one place where I can study. I didn't want to have to look through 10 different books. I mean, it's important you still have to have your reference materials. But I wanted one good place to study so I can remember going and buying this. And I've been trying to figure out what the date says, but I can't tell the date. But I paid $3.99 for it, but I know it was well over 10 years ago. And then basically I put together my own little study guide. So my sister gets credit for going through this thing and transcribing all this for me. These are some of her notes and so on for different slides. Because this notebook we have based the PowerPoint presentation we have, we have around 150 slides done so far and we're not done yet. But that's going to be our online ground training on the paid site that you'll be able to go through. And I'll have video along with that to talk you through the different things in the notebook. But these are some of the things that different things on our slides and the first couple pages are over here because I've used this so much, it's wore out that we've got the first couple pages hidden back there away. But it's all good stuff and there's a lot of Robinson stuff in here because I changed originally with the Robinson. But that's fine. Some things in between the different helicopters are the same, some are different but I'll point them out. What's Robinson, what's instrument? Maybe some Schweitzer stuff. But it's pretty much all the meat of everything. You gotta the symmetry of lift, flapping, stored energy, coning, phonetic Alphabet, a little bit of everything. Air spaces, flight service, just all the meat of what you gotta know. Three stages of a thunderstorm and they're all my own drawings. And basically what we've done is my sister has went through, transcribed it all over to the computer and she's put in some images but we haven't changed a whole lot. We've tried to keep everything pretty much true to the notebook as the form that I made it well over 10 years ago. And over the years people have wanted to buy it, borrow it, steal it and I've always hid it away and never let anybody have it. So that's why we decided to base our training basically all in notebooks. So the notebooks going to be available in hardback. It'll be available. All the online stuff is all going to be based on the notebook. So it's not taking necessarily you from private pilot day one student off the street. It's kind of geared towards, really geared towards checkride preparation going through and helping you make sure that you know the stuff you got to know. Spatial disorientation.

So that's how it all started with the beat up old notebook. I went down to the drugstore and got and used to get through my ratings later as an instructor flying ems. Nick Logan comes along, says hey, you should start an online ground school and based on your notebook. And we did that and now four years later it's published on Amazon along with my book Helicopter Checkride. So if you'd like a copy of the book you can get it on Amazon at the link below. You can also get a copy by joining our premium online Ground school membership, which you can get a link to up here in the corner of the screen. You can click right there to go to an information page. So thanks for checking out this video and we'll see in the next video. It.