How to pick a Helicopter Flight School

How to pick a flight school. That's the next on our list of frequently asked questions. I'm Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Online Ground School. We're gonna get right to that real quick before I get started. Free PDF down below. Top 10 Checkride tips. Co authored this with Taz Christman 2018 Flash Tractor of the Year. We put our 40 years experience combined in here on things we see people screw up when they get ready to go for a checkride. It's PDF, it's free down below. First tip I want to give you is my experience. When I first started calling around, trying to find a place to fly, one thing that I found was sometimes you didn't get called back at all, sometimes you didn't get called back for several days. Sometimes people weren't so friendly. And the one that did the trick for me was a place that I called where there was somebody on the phone daily. The person answered the phone was very sweet, very knowledgeable, answered all my questions, very, very, very welcoming. I went on to do my first two ratings there, private and commercial, and ended up being my first cfi. So that's just a general experience. And I've heard other people say the same thing about calling helicopter companies. And I suppose you could say that about any company, right? Not just picking on helicopter companies. That's what I found firsthand, calling flight schools, trying to set up some training, set up intro flights. Very simply, that's what I found. So how to pick a flight school? Brian, who is our operations manager, who came up with this list, interview them, which means go out to the flight school, visit them, sit down, talk to them. There's a lot of things that come up when you first start this endeavor of learning to fly. And you may have several options. You may not have many options in your area. You may have to travel quite a distance. The biggest thing, interview them. How well did they, you know, take care of you when you called on the phone? How will they take care of you when you get there? Do they answer all your questions? Do they make things very clear? Go out and visit them. Visit several of them if you have to. And of course you can check Google, review reviews and research Online networking is another way to just talk to people. Usually a flight school that has a good reputation, you'll hear that they have a good reputation. A lot of times you'll hear when it's not so good. And there are tons of things to look out for and lots to think about. But I urge you to get started. Go out, pick a few try to get some introductory lessons and see what's right for you. You know, we're going to have some more things that come up that will help with this picking a flight school. But get out there, visit them, check out the operation and see if you're just starting out. We understand it's going to be kind of hard, but getting out there and talking to them is the best way to get started and start trying to make a choice. We'll have another video coming up for you tomorrow. Don't forget free PDF down below. Oh summer sale ending the last day of summer, September 22nd. You can get 33% off any Hogs membership right now down below@helopterground.com in the description below the video. And if you have a question about becoming a member or any of our memberships signups, anything you need to know about getting signed up, text or call Heather, our member concierge at 574-767-1797. You can text or call that number seven days a week and and she'll get back to you as soon as possible and get your questions answered for you. Come back for the next one and we'll see you next video. Peace out.