If the HELICOPTER is broke on the pad / DON'T FLY IT!

So Heather says the little red lights on. Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter on ground school. Upbeat, positive video here. Still have the MDs here. Lorenzo will be back soon. Promised us an interview when he gets back. He went home to. Or he went to MD school and then was gonna get to go home for a week after not being home for like over 45 days. Lorenzo is one of our star ground school members from eight years ago. He's right over here on the Hogs Fall Hogs wall of fame. Behind the camera, Lorenzo is a great story that we're going to cover more. He's now flying these eight years later. He has a great story that we're going to share with you when you see him. But for everybody that says, well, how, you know, how do you get a job? You know, how do you ever get a start? It's too difficult. He's going to tell you how. And his first MD 500 job, he called the guy every day, every day, every day. Until finally the guy hired him because he got tired of him calling. Right. It's about selling yourself and going after it. So more of that to come. For those of you that are trying to get into your career, you can do it. I did it the same way 911 happens. And our flight school basically is doing nothing. I got on the, you know, start contacting every single flight school I could find. And I found the only one in four states was doing anything. And they hired me over a stack of other people because I went after it. That's how you do this. We had to refund customers on our final approach courses. Okay. We. We had $40,000 on account what we worked here with for seven months trying to put this all together. It didn't pan out with the owner of the aircraft. Right. It was, you're going to have the parts. We set up this maintenance area. Oh, the mechanic close by. We'll have the parts. Both aircraft will be running. You sell your courses. If that one breaks, we'll bring up the backup aircraft. Basically the aircraft that we supposedly were going to have to use in seven months. It was never even. It was always something wrong. We couldn't get it into service. Consistent problems. So here's what I want to tell you. Money, maintenance, mechanic. Okay? I've been through this with private owners over the years, and everybody always comes to me how they're going to buy a helicopter and they're going to take on the world, and here's how they're going to do it. And it's going to be Fine, it's going to be grand. And I always say, great, if you have disposable income and you have money to just write that check and you're prepared to do that, and you're prepared to. Something breaks, you get on the horn, you find the parts, you find the mechanic, and you get it overnight it get the guy there, whatever it takes. In this industry, people get screwed out of money. A lot of. Right. We know what happened with Silver State Helicopters. I was talking to one of our members yesterday, a pro member is like, hey, well, how do you feel about money on account he's going to the flight school and he's having issues there. And I said, dude, don't even do it. And this is why we just went ahead and refunded our customers on those facs we had. And they were all respectful and they were courteous and they were thankful because I said, look, I can't deliver what I promised to you. If you come, I'm only going to have maybe one aircraft. I got to, I got a. I got to fight to get the one here pliable. I'm not going to have a backup for you. And most of them didn't even really. They're like, well, I, you know, what else can we do? I'm like, well, I can't. If I can't provide two aircraft, I can't do this for you. So rather than keep your money on account, I don't want that reputation. It's like, we're going to cancel them because we can't. We start them, we scheduled them, and then we had to cancel them in the spring. So then we scheduled them for the summer and fall and we were turning into aircraft. Still not going to be done. There's a point where you throw up your hands and go, enough's enough. So anybody that wants to get into this, I've had so many emails in the last 12 years of doing this, everybody thinks they're going to just take on the world, man. And aircraft can be profitable. But nine times out of 10, I think it's multiple aircraft, multiple instructors, you got a mechanic on staff or a mechanic close by, you have dependable aircraft, those things can all fall into place. But if you're not willing to fix that aircraft, the minute something is wrong with it, and if you're going to try to, oh, we'll just go ahead and fly it, we're going to get to that. We're going to fix that. No, if it's broke on the pad, you don't fly it okay. If it's broke on the pad, you don't fly it. Student owner, EMS news. It doesn't matter. If you get in the habit of taking off when something ain't right, then what else? What else you got to take off that's not quite up to snuff next time. That's not how we do this. Okay, so it's just kind of a public service announcement for anybody that's going to buy one. If you are committed and you have the money and you're ready to get those parts and fix them. That's what I say when you have to skimp by all the time. Well, we don't want to fix that yet because of this. Because it's expensive. I've heard it a thousand times. I pre warn every private owner, within a couple months, they start complaining, oh, my God. Hey, I told you, if you can't afford it, don't do it. Bottom line, aircraft are expensive. They're expensive to operate. Maintenance is expensive. It's going to cost you a buttload of money. Be prepared to write the check. And if you're not going to do that, don't buy one. Don't get into flight training. If you're not willing to fix that aircraft at any moment in time. Find the parts, find the mechanics. Do whatever you got to do to get back in service. Don't do it. So where do we go from here? From here? Oh, we were talking this morning a little bit ago. Heather and I are like, well, what do we do? You know, we got everybody refunded. Everybody's happy. We want that reputation, right? We want to. We don't take people's money. So we have still calling every day. People call Heather every day. They want to fly. We have an opportunity, possibly with a Bell 47. Not for sure if that's going to take place. One of our members calls today and he goes, dude, I've been watching you for five years, and if that Bell 47 happens, I want to come up and finish my reading. I'm like, great. And anyway, he's like, kenny, I've been watching you for five years. I understand. You don't want things broken. You want things right. You want things fixed. You push safety. And we do. How could we not be conservative and push safety and not want to fly stuff that's broken? You know that little old cream puff instrument I used for five years every year, it never broke. I had to put a battery in it once, and we'd have the mechanic come out, put a flasher in for the strobe or something. Five years, it never broke because when it went for its annuals, it got everything it needed. And the owner spared no expense. The owner, the mechanic knew. Don't even call the owner. He knew the answer would be just order the part. Just fix it. If there's a question, just replace it. Don't even call me. That's how he operated. That's how my buddy operated for the 20 years he owned that aircraft. Just fix it, mechanic. Just fix it. Don't even call me. Just, I don't care what it is. I'll write the check. So where do we go from here? This member says, hey, you know, I'd like up to the bell 47, but either way I'll come up, I'll fly whatever you get. He goes, I don't care. I'll transition to another aircraft. I want that fac. And we're hearing that from other people, right? So we created something really cool. And this is what Heather and I were talking about today before this member calls. Like, we created something really, really cool and we put seven months of our hard earned time and effort into making something really neat that we just couldn't deliver on. So it's a shame to just let it go. So maybe we do a modified FAC where if we have an aircraft available or if we have a good quality where it doesn't break often, you know, we still take that chance and try to run the faculty with just one aircraft or who knows what else. Just we wanted to put it out there so people understand why we're not offering the fac as was stated before, looking for opportunities. In the meantime, Heather, want to make sure I let you know there's always a discount available for you if you watch our videos. Once in a while we'll say this, but, you know, we run specials occasionally for helicopter on ground school, for our ground school courses. Heather's always got codes. You can get a. You can get a discount 365 days a year. All you have to do is either text Heather, call Heather, or give her an email, and she'll throw some discount codes at you. So ground school is what we do. It's our number one. The flight training is a service to our members and we like to continue to provide that. But we need the right scenario. We need the right aircraft. So that's all I got for you. Anything I should add Heather down below the phone number 574-767-1797. Get a hold of her or you can email her. Heatherelicoptergun.com, she'll shoot you some codes. Tell her what you're interested real brief, just quickly where you're at in your training, what you're looking for, so she'll know what you know to tailor your your package and your discount. So click one of those links below, go direct to our website, check out our courses, call or text Heather and we'll see you next. Video Live to fly another Day. Helicopterground. Com Peace out.