Live To Fly Another Day! HOGS Weather Decision NO GO Button Giveaways today!

All right, says we're live. So the ninja mechanic, he's no, not ninja anymore because we called him ninja because he shows up and always works on it when nobody's around. So if you hear the clanking over here, he's no longer ninja because we see him doing something. He's just finishing up this aircraft, it's ready to start flying. Jason will be happy. So while we wait for a few people to come in, here's the six no go's we're giving away. And we're going to give away three of these. I got 14 questions picked out of the private pilot study guide link below for that if you want a copy. 400 questions from operations manager Brian Rutledge. So while we wait for a few people to get in here and get started giving away some stuff so people got a chance to win, we're going to do five warm up questions. Is that right? We're going to do five warm up questions, then we'll give away three questions or do three questions, give away three top ten checkride tips. And then the last six questions will be for the no go button. So a lot of you already know the story. For those of you that don't, since this is the big giveaway today, we've been giving these out a couple years now and Heather never let me give them away. She said no, we're saving it for checkrides and people send their picture in. So for something special today to hopefully get a few of you in here that might not normally come in because you want the no go, we're giving away six. And the fun part of the story is when I was flying ems, I was flying with a Vietnam era guy pilot. And some of the best stuff I've ever learned, a lot of it has been from Vietnam era pilots. Why not, right? Why wouldn't you learn from a guy who's been flying forever? And when we were flying ems, he had the staples, easy button. And there's of course a lot of stress in the EMS environment on making weather decisions, go no go decisions. Everybody tells you they want to be safe. The hospital says they want to be safe. The crew says they want to be safe. They all say they want to be safe. And of course, you know, deep down they do want to be safe. However, they're pacing the floor while you're waiting. You know, you're making your decision because they want to go by nature, right? They want to go, go, go. And there's always that pressure. No matter how many people say they want to Be safe. They still want to go and the hospital wants you to go because that's how they make money. So among a bunch of other stuff that I learned from this pilot that was good stuff that I still use today, he would have the staples easy button sitting there and he'd get an EMS call, check the weather, get on the phone, call dispatch, say, well, we're going to decline that flight for weather. Hang up the phone, boom. That was easy. Hit the easy button. Which was neat, right, because it took away a little bit of the stress and it was kind of like a fun little thing to do to boom. Hit the button and say, that was easy because you put all this pressure on yourself. Or maybe you're feeling the pressure from the company or you're feeling the pressure from the hospital or whoever. Maybe you're feeling the pressure from the news station. I had that pressure when I flew news reporting years ago. There's always those pressures are going to be there no matter what. External, internal. So it was a neat idea. And I love the fact that he would hit that button. That was easy. And that's what inspired our no go button, right? Just. It was something that I saw somebody else do. And so we made the no go button. This only normally goes out to someone after you pass your checkride. When a member passes a checkride, sends us in their picture and we put them up on the Hogs wall of fame. Heather sends you the no go button. So going to give away six of those. You know, the other one of the cool things that he taught me and I've talked about before and I'll mention it again, because same guy, Vietnam air pilot, he's the one that said, you know, I made a decision once I'm out of weather and I was sitting there, you know, second guessing myself and he's like, kenny, stop that shit. You make the best decision in the moment. When that call comes in, you decide what you're going to do. You're going or you're not going. The worst thing to do is sit there and look at it after the fact. Because you'll sit there, you'll turn the flight down and then you're going. You keep looking, oh, well, maybe I could have. Well, maybe I should have. And he's like, stop that shit. Look at the weather at that moment in time and make the best decision for that moment. And when you make the decision, no, you're not going, then you just move on with your day. Quit looking at the weather. Stop doing it. Move on. Go, go on to whatever's next because you're making that decision for right now. You're not making that decision for 15 minutes for now or what you think the weather's gonna do. You make the best decision in the moment and you stick with it. Don't second guess yourself. So live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com all right, how many people we got? 11. Maybe we'll get some more. Got some pretty good chance at winning. So let's do some warm up questions, we'll go right to it. Right, Zach, who else we got? Sean? All right, well, hopefully we'll get some more in there. So right out of the private pilot study guide, there's a link down below. Brian Rutledge is a 30 year aviator, CFI airplanes and helicopters. Was in charge of the aviation unit for the largest aviation unit in California. In charge of pilots for the airplanes and the helicopters, in charge of training the whole deal. He put this together last summer. So this is a way to test yourself before a checkride and the way he built it. We're going to use weather section today. There's the weather questions with no answer. So you can write your own answer in to test your own knowledge. And then the second half of that chapter is the same question with the correct answer. So man, 11 people, you know, should we, with only 11 people, should we still do warm up questions or should we get right to it? Let's do three warm up and then we'll start giving away some stuff. So this is easy. But you're going to see this on a written test. You're going to see this examiner might ask you. This is huge for the weather, very simple. If you've been doing this for any length of time, you should know this answer really, really quickly. Every physical process of weather is accompanied by the result of what? So there's only 11 of you. Type it in and let us know. There's Paul. I wonder how many Paul's going to answer today. Every physical process of whether is accompanied by or is the result of what. Come on. Oh man, there's only eight people in there. Aang nine heat. Paul's got it. I figured. All right, let's go the next one. We'll do two. Where does wind shear occur? High altitude, low altitude. Where? Where does wind shear occur? And there's Nick. Hey Nick, guess what? Ninja mechanics in the background. You just got your aircraft fixed. Also we got crypto heat exchange. Okay, that was the last one, right? Any altitude. Exactly, any altitude. Altitudes in all directions. Alright, let's do one More and you guys are going to start winning some stuff, man. Alright, here we go. One more warm up. What are the two types of sigmet? There's two. Tap it in there. They've been on it so far. So what can I talk about while we're waiting? I'll tell you about top 10 checkride chips real quick. A lot of you already have this. You have the PDF, you have the paperback. If not, Taz Chrisman and I put this together. Taz Chrisman is 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. Just retired from the Air Force. He's from Rochester, Indiana, not far where we're from. Got to know him after he became a Hogs member doing his cfi. Add on and he's been a CFI forever. We put our heads together and came up with the top 10 checkride tips. Just things that we've seen over the years of what screws people up at a checkride, why they fail, why the checkride doesn't even get started. Because of dumb little stupid things that people don't get done and cover. Hey, there we go. There we got an answer. Sean got con. Oh wait, yes. Convective and non convective. He got it. Awesome. So here's what we're giving away for the next question. We're going to give away three of these man, as people do. Good for showing up. Right? Here we go. So the first top 10 checkride tips authored by Taz Chrisman and I. And the fun part of that story, I launched this at home in my pajamas. Taz was at Oshkosh on the day he was receiving his award at Oshkosh for 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. While he was receiving that, this came through as Amazon number one best seller after we published it. I think the night before. By that day as he's getting his award, we hit Amazon bestseller. So that was really cool for Taz. That was an exciting day for him. I was super excited for him. So here we go. I'm only going to ask for three of five types of fog. What are the question is in the book what are the five types of fog? Give me three of them. Type them all on the same line. All three of them for top 10 checkride tips. I have a hard time talking when I'm waiting on somebody to answer. There's five types of fog. Name three of the five types of fog. Oh, while we're doing that, hey, here's our specials ending tonight. While we're waiting for somebody to come up with three of five until midnight tonight. 40% off private monthly. 40% off advanced pilot monthly. And if your current member paying full price or a price of it's like 5820 with a 40% off. Heather can help you unsubscribe you and you sign back up with 40% off. Then private pilot, we have a special deal where we if you pay full price, that's 1160, 64 bucks a year. We do a special where we say buy six months, we give you 12 months access. We run that occasionally we have that up but on the website. But we put a 40% discount on that. So you can do private pilot for a year. 349.20. So that's a freaking great deal. Now between now and midnight, if you go for any of the pros here, Heather's going to send you a copy of the private pilot study guide on top of the discount. So you got a pro pilot, 24 months, 598 as private commercial CFI and instrument for 24 months. It's there for you as needed. Pro lifetime, that's 1800 bucks. That's private commercial CFI instrument that never expires. You'll have it as long as you need. It took me four years from off the street to, to CFI. 1080 bucks, that's 40% off. Keep it forever. Then the pro lifetime was six zooms. Daniel sells those at 2800 full price throughout the year. That's on special right now. 40% off, 1,680 bucks. And if you paid for all that training and paid for every single one of your ratings and you went to a flight school and you had to drive for every single ground lesson and you paid them to feed you, hand feed you after everything. That's 9,600 bucks. That's the way it works. Anybody answer the question?

I think Wayne F up there may have gotten it.

He's.

He was first.

Which one? Wayne? Ep. Let's see. Yeah, you know, it'd be nice if people would use proper pronunciation if you'd take the time to. Or use proper spelling. But we'll let him have it. Wayne. Radiation. Wait a minute. Yeah, okay. Radiation. Precipitation induced is what he's trying to say on the second one. And steam. Okay, so Wayne, you got it. So for the rest of this, please type out properly spell a complete word. I know you weren't trying to win, but it just makes it easier if you type in the whole word correctly. Alright, so that's one down. Next, top 10 checkride tips. And this Is a good one that you need to know and it's very easy and you should have Learned it Day 1. Private Pilot 101 what Temperature Dew point spread will likely cause form fog to form. You got to know this examiner hands down is going to ask you on every single private pilot checkride because this is part of the whole no go decision if you've got a temperature dew point spread. Paul said two degrees. Yeah, let's. Yeah. Brian has marked three, but two definitely. Yeah. If you got two degrees, that's a problem. Three. That'll work. Paul, how many books do you have? Paul, do you want the book? You probably have 80 books by now. Paul, do you want your book? Do you have the top 10 check? We'd sit, Paul. I'm sure you probably do. No thanks. Alright, Roy, five degrees or less. Nah, I wasn't looking for that one. I mean it could be but you're really watching for when you know it's 2 to 3 degrees spread. That's when you really, really got to be really thinking about it. What do we do other I guess we go on to the next question or we give. Ah, let's give it to Roy. What the hell, there's only nine people in here. Give it to him, Roy. Top 10 checkride tips. God damn. Everybody's gonna get a no go button today if they can answer the question. Oh well, we're doing it. I'm not gonna go back on my word. All right, so that's two books. Yep. Okay, one more top ten checkride tips. Roy's got one. Dang. Then who'd be number two? Who's next? Paul's already got him. Paul's already got one. Roy's got one. I guess we've given away too many. Hey Roy, do you have helicopter checkride? We send him that instead. He wants the no go. Yeah, keep answering. Everybody's got top 10. All right, let's just go to the no go's. What do you think, Heather? Sure, let's do it. Let's do it.

There's not too many people in here today.

So yeah, nine people. Six of them can win a go or no go. Well, we just gave one away, right?

We gave away one captain to win.

Did we give away just. Did we just give away a no go? No, we did. Okay. Yeah, you said keep playing, Zach. I have both questions. Well, look at this man. Whatever Heather says. That's right. We let Heather make the decisions.

That's awesome that they have them though.

Alright, let's just go. Let's Go. All right, well, here we go. Seven people. It looks like everybody's gonna get a no go button if they can at least answer a question. What are the four fronts? What are the four weather fronts? Give me all four. Nah, give me three. Give me three of the four. What are the four fronts? Name them and Heather's gonna ship you a no go. Six watching Nan. They're falling off. Hell, we should just give the six people left the damn no go button. Come on. Making it easy. What are the four fronts? Name three of them. Name three of cold front, warm front, stationary front. There you go, Sean. You got it. Oh, or somebody get it before him.

Well, Paul said cold, warm, stationary, but.

I guess he didn't. Well, okay, Paul's right then. Paul, do you have a no go? It's yours, Paul, if you want it. I don't know if you got a no go or not. Paul, do you have it? Yep, he's got one. All right, so that's one down. Right, Email heather, heatherelicopterground.com with your shipping address and she'll send you the no go. All right, next one. I've got four characteristics of unstable air. Give me three. Give me three. Characteristics of unstable air. And I'm going by the four that Brian has listed. The private pilot study guide. What are the characteristics of unstable air? What did I say? Just give me three. Is that what I just said? Give me three. Come on, somebody give me three. Somebody give me three. Somebody give me 3. Paul will donate it. All right, well, you gave his to John. Come on, people. What are the characteristics of unstable air? Good visibility, cumulus. Why am I reading the answers? All right, come on. How slow is YouTube? Come on. Somebody's answered by now. Surely 14 viewers. Good. A few more in there. All right, so we're giving away no go button. We're waiting for the first. First person to give us good visibility.

Keeping this class showering precipitation.

Did we. Do we do stable? No. Which one did I ask? I asked what are the characteristics of stable air? Right. What the hell did I ask? We already did the fronts.

So we have stable air, clear visibility, showers, turbulence, strat.

All right, here you. Since you're reading them, here's the answers. What are the characteristics of stable air? Poor visibility, stratiform clouds, continuous precipitation, smooth air. Come on, people. Crypto.

You were close, but he said good visibility.

Yeah, yeah. Stable air is not good visibility. That's unstable air gives you good visibility. Oh, Paul said.

Yes, Unstable.

Paul said what?

Paul said unstable air.

You asked. I did God dang it. All right, what are we doing here, Heather? Well, what do I do then?

I guess we're crypto Baron. Did he get the right answer then.

For Unstable if I asked? Unstable? Yes. Yeah, he got it. So crypto. Right, Crypto. So at least four, right?

Winner of number two.

Yep. Paul said again, whatever Heather says. That's right. Takes pressure off me. You can get mad at Heather if you didn't win. She made the call. All right, now. Cool. Alright, here's one that you all got to know. And if you are even a basic in your student working on your private, you should know this by now. You've done any length of ground, you got to know this. Every examiner asked this on every dam checkride. Private commercial, they ask it on every single checkride. What are the three stages of a thunderstorm? You don't have to tell me what goes on during those, but I want to know the three stages. What are the three stages of a thunderstorm? Basic Private Pilot, 101. Every single one of you. If you're gonna pilot the helicopter, you're gonna go for a truck ride, you got to know this. Cumulus. Why do I do that? Why do I keep giving away the answers? There, I gave you one, you got two more. Type all three in the same line. Proper spelling please. The three stages of a thunderstorm. So you watch Heather for the answers to come in midnight tonight. This is the ten year special. He's got it. Paul again. All right, who's crypto? He won one. Roy, he hasn't got a no go yet, right?

Nope, I don't think so.

Roy, do you have a no go? Well, he didn't win it today, right?

He didn't want the top 10 because he got it.

So.

Paula, Paul already has one. Crypto just won one. So Roy would be the winner of this one.

Roy, do you have one? Roy, do you have one? Roy, do you have one? I'm gonna move it over and say he doesn't have one and move it over here. So we got three more to go close Chad. Paul, I should quit. Well, you can answer because we know now. We just know now. Paul. Yeah. This is slow crowd today, so not a big deal. No, I need one. Okay, Roy, you got it. You got the no go button. So there's three left. All right, 15 people, half of you got them already. So here's a good one. Since we're on the weather subject and we're talking about the no go button and in the email today I said, you know, I really think we should push more. Everybody keeps talking about, oh, and more IMC training, more instrument training, more, you know, blah, blah, blah. And that's all stuff. That's all great. We all need that training, and you need to know what to do if you do fly into the clouds. However, I don't think we push enough of just stay on the freaking ground and not go. When the weather's iffy, the temperature, dew, point spread is close, don't go. And all the other reasons why we make these decisions. If it's. If you stay on the ground, is it worth your life ever? Is any single flight out there ever worth your life? I don't think so. Okay, so I. Did I answer a question? Did I ask a question? I did, didn't I? Did I ask?

Nope. We are ready for giveaway number four question.

Okay, so what? Yeah, okay, so I was just saying you need to know this. What two conditions are necessary for structural icing in flight to occur? Okay. What two conditions must be necessary for structural icing? Yesterday I told my story about icing where I screwed up years ago when they were calling for possible icing in the afternoon. And I'm saying, oh, well, but that's forecasted for this afternoon. But the. The elements were still there where it could happen. And if I'd have used my brain, I would have stayed on the ground, and I never went. There we go. Moisture and freezing temps. That's the first one, right? Yep. And I would say yes, because you have to have visible moisture and temps close to freezing above or below anytime you're near that freezing mark. You know, if it's 20 degrees, not gonna happen. It's cold enough. But if you're near freezing and you have visible moisture, that can cause icing, and it's a big deal. And it's a problem. And it's a problem in helicopters. Super dangerous. So Kevin got it, right? Or who got it? Tommy. Tommy got it. Hey, and there's Todd. Todd, I know I got to call you, dude, about your checkride. Heather and I just said, have you talked to Todd yet? I'm like, no, we just been busy last day, Todd. I'll call when we get done today. I'm gonna call your phone. I'll ring your phone soon as we're done. I know. I got your email with your number, so I'll call you. There you go. Tommy. Yeah. These no go's. Hey, these all in the past. This is the first time Heather said, you know what? Let's give away some no go's we thought people would be flying in here today and crowding in for this. We sent two emails. But you know what? Before we let go the last two away, this is my complaint. And I told Heather this. I said, you know, even though stuff that we've done a lot of stuff with like the US Helicopter safety team and stuff, but nobody's ever really taken any interest in our no go button. And I sure as hell think this is freaking fantastic and this is the kind of things we should be talking about and promoting. But why is it that whenever you get down to real safety stuff, nobody really seems to care? Not nobody, not nobody. But, you know, it's like I was telling her, the five years I flew an ems, the one year was the most deadly in history. And every time an aircraft would go down, you'd lose a medical crew or just a pilot or a pilot in the crew and a patient. And you'd bring it up to talk to people about this recent accident. And they were always like, oh, yeah, so sad. We lost another helicopter and crew. Hey, what are you guys doing Saturday night? You know, there was just like, that was just like the thing. It's just like, oh, well, you know, helicopters crash, people die. It's just part of it. It's like, no, it doesn't have to be part of it. And we've had another rash of accidents recently. That's why we thought today people would, other people would flock in here, try to win. No go buttons, but whatever. Thank you, Tommy. You and crew have helped tremendously. Your private pilot guide is awesome. Love it. Thank you. All right, two more and we're done. So here's another one. And this is a good one. And this is going to. You're going to see on your private pilot written. And this is one that I'd say there's a 85% chance the examiner is going to ask you on a private pilot checkride, what are the three types of icing? Type them all in the same row, please. Try to use. These are pretty easy to spell, so, you know, try to use proper spelling as you type them in. What are the three types of icing for this? Hey, is that Todd? Clear, rhyme and mixed. He's the first. Yep. Good job, Todd. Here's your noco. I'm going to put it over here with the others. Todd, we probably already have your your address, but if we don't email Heather with your address, we'll ship it out to you. And again, we're about to wrap up here and I'll Give you a call here just shortly because I want to hear all about your checkride and what happened so we can tell the story and embarrass your instructor. No, I wouldn't do that. Oh, I'm not gonna embarrass anybody. We won't talk about it. Alright, what should be. We got one more to go. Yep. Okay. It's amazing how many times people get this stuff like this wrong. I want to know what the words are and use proper spelling please, because this is what gets people. Everybody type so damn fast and you're going what the hell are they trying to say? What I want you to type in, What I want you to type in is the four words spelled properly for what is asos? A S O S. What is asos? I want to know with proper spelling, what does that stand for? What are the four terms spelled correctly? What is asos? A S O, S For the last no go button. So do us a favor, for those of you that are getting these, show them off, take them to your flight school. We do have people. I say people don't care and that's not true. We do occasionally get an email and people even chat will go, hey, I had to use the no go button yesterday. I was getting ready to do a flight and this happened and I hit the no go button. I stayed on the ground. So you know what, people are using them. So we thought that was why it was a good topic today. Automated Surface Observing System.

I mean he corrected his spelling and.

Tommy, Tommy's already got one. No, Chad didn't win one. Hey, all right, we'll say Chad, what do you think? Observation, observing. All right, close enough. What do you think? Sure. You got it, Chad. There you go. So there they are, six no go's. It's a fun story. It's a cool idea where they came from again, you know, I learned a lot of really, really good stuff from the Vietnam era pilots and a lot of that. And that's of course all the stuff I learned I share with all of you. It's in hogs training, it's in these videos we talk about. You know, you just learn from others, right? I'm always telling you about all my stupid mistakes and all the dumb stuff I've done just because if you can help somebody else by telling your stupid story, then. Anyway, we gave them away. So that ends tonight. It's been a long month. I think we should wrap it up. Call Heather between now. How late you staying up tonight, Heather?

Midnight probably.

Should probably be there till midnight. So if you need help with any of these offers by midnight, Heather could straighten you out and get you helped out. And if she has a problem, she'll text her, call me till midnight. This is the biggest sell of the year. We won't do it again in 2022 because every, every year in March we're celebrating another year in business. And this year being 10 years in business, we thought, of course, we got to have a really good sale with some really great savings. So the code is if you happen to go to, let's say an hour from now. Oh, these links are below this video. I didn't tell you that. All this stuff right here is right now. It's below in the description box. These will deactivate at midnight. The links down below for these offers, you don't even need the code. It's a special link taken from the code page so it takes you direct to the checkout and it'll show you the price marked out with the current price. So if you go below this video down there, you can sign up for any of these. And if you sign up before midnight for any of the pros, we're going to send you the private pilot study guide. We're going to add that $97 value to the 40% off. All those links are down below. If you find your way to helicopterground.com later, you don't want to go back to the video. The code is HOGS40. The prices you see on our website homepage are the current prices without the discount. So you need the code Hogs40. If you happen onto the Hogs page, our homepage to try to sign up, it's Hogs40. Type that in all caps Hogs40. Click apply and it will show you the discount. But if you use the links below, you don't even need the code. Alright, I don't know what else to tell you. Thanks everybody for jumping in. Hey, you show a lot of you showed up and almost everybody won something. No more people than were here. So there you go. That's it. Our last live event for the 10 year sale. We're never doing another one again, ever. We'll do1 for 11 years online and we might do a. When do I do our next cell? Usually we kind of back off for a while after March. We kind of go, Heather did say today. Maybe, maybe we'll do whatever Heather says. Paul's digging the Heather making the choices. I like it too. Thank you, Eric. Happy 10. It's hard after 10 years to always come up and be creative and think of stuff to do because I've done about everything. It's like, God, what haven't I done for a while? So Heather's been coming up with these good ideas. Today was this one, and she did say, well, maybe we'll run one special for next month, but only, you know, everything will go back to full price. But maybe we'll pick one thing to run as a special for the month, so everything else will be back at full price. So this is the biggest sell with the biggest discounts. I don't know when our next sale will be. I don't know. After March, though, we usually chill out in the cells for a while. July 4th, maybe. I can't think of anything else good between now and July 4th. July 4th? Yeah, I would say July 4th. So, Nick, you know, Jason, it's fixed. He got it going. So you guys do your thing. Get flying. All right? See you next year. I mean, next video. He's out. Oh, let's end with live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com Peace out.