Kenny Keller and Heather walk through how to pick a flight school: check if they answer the phone, look at the aircraft condition, ask for student references, and trust your gut. Try multiple instructors to see what works for you.
Hey, you know, okay, I'm ready. I want to go schedule an introductory flight. But how do I know if it's a good flight school? We get a question often from people. How do I pick a good flight school? So we've picked another video from the Coffee with Kenny archives that we're going to roll for you here in just a minute. But before we get to that on how to pick a flight school or how to pick a good school, we want to talk about our Memorial Day sale that ends Monday night, Memorial Day at midnight. Our monthly's have been at 97amonth for like five or six years. For, for this 50% off sale that brings the monthly down to 4850. Same thing on the yearly options. Those are normally 697. 50% off until Monday night, 348.50. Then we have a private pilot lifetime that is normally 997. You keep the course, never expires. That's on sale for 498.50 until Monday night at midnight. And then for pro pilot, pro pilot, you get private pilot, commercial pilot, instrument pilot, Certified flight instructor. 650 videos, hours and hours and hours of training will be there when you need it. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the money you're spending to get all the way to CFI that's on sale normally 2850% off at 1400 until Monday night. Use the code memorial50 in the coupon box during the checkout and it will show you the discounted price. So let's get to that video on how to pick a flight school. You can give me some input what you would think if you were going to your introductory flight. And I thought about this question from the viewer who said hey, you know, okay, I'm ready, I want to go schedule an introductory flight. But how do I know if it's a good flight school? Well number one, yes, it's a concern. It's the same as any product or service out there, right? You need to do a little bit of research. What are the standard forms? Check good Google reviews. But calling them up, the first thing I would say, number one, do they answer their phone? Number two, do they return your call? And if they do, are they pleasant? Do they take care of you? Do they answer your questions? And then when you go visit the flight school, is the flight school clean or not? How's their aircraft look? Does it look like it's well maintained or does it look like it's a beater piece of shit. You know, you got to take the totality of the circumstances and there's no way that I can answer that question in one shot. Yesterday Heather mentioned something about going with your gut. There's got to be a little gut instinct too there, right? So don't go back to the. I'm not going to do anything because I'm worried about the flight school. I'm going to do an intro. That's not a good school. Flight schools are regulated by the faa. Most flight schools are good, right. You might get some fly by night shady places here and there, but I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about your intro flight. How do they treat you? Does the machine look good? Check the reputation locally. See if you can talk to one or two of their current students and just do the research. There's no absolute answer for this. Anything you could think of that, I mean, I don't know, it's like any. Like I said, any product or service.
No, pretty much that's it. Just. Yeah, go with your gut. Because you might, you know, choose somewhere just because you're gonna save a bunch of money and sometimes you get what.
You pay for, right? And you're gonna. You get what you pay for and you're gonna get a feel once you get started. And that's why it's a good idea to go ahead and if you schedule an intro and then you want to start taking lessons, go check out a couple different places, check out some different instructors, check out some different aircraft, and you're gonna get a feel for it. You got to use some of your own. Again, we can't hold your hand. We'd love to, but we can't. You gotta. You gotta go out and just do it. And if you sit around worrying about is that flight school going to be a good flight school or not, get out there and find out would be the only thing I could think of to say.
Yeah, it's like us girls and going to a hairstylist. Sometimes you feel like you're cheating on one hairstylist, but sometimes you gotta bounce.
Around to see who's gonna do that is exactly right. That is exactly right. And we talk about this a lot, how a student gets comfortable with one instructor, one helicopter. They don't want to switch helicopters, they don't want to switch instructors. That's common. Everybody does it. I remember when I didn't want to do it. But I'm telling you, after 20 years of being around this, flying with different instructors is good. Flying different aircraft is good. Flying at different locations is good. It will give you a more rounded sense of what this industry is all about and getting the different experiences. Yes, cost you more money, but it's worth it. You learn something different from every single person you go fly with when you feel the pressure to fly, but know the right decision is to stay on the ground. Hit the hogs. No, Go and live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com. Halfway done? Yes sir.
I'm keeping that.
Do it. I'm trying to think of something fun and cool to do.
