Chris Houser, HOGS' lead helicopter instructor, started flying in 2008 and switched to helicopters a year later. He's been a CFI for five to six years and will help develop HOGS' instrument ground school and appear in future instructional videos.
What am I gonna do? What am I gonna say?
You have to ask questions.
Just do like I always do.
Right, wing it.
Just wing it. Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter airline ground school. And here we have our lead instructor, Chris Hauser, who you have not seen on camera before. He is a big part of helicopter align ground school. He is. Did all of his ratings with me. Private commercial, cfi. Been flying together about eight years. He has been flying with us since he got his cfi. What, five years ago? Yeah, six years ago. So he's been a cfi. He's been here with us flying. He just. We could never drag him in front of the camera. So we finally coerced him. Number one, because he has this shirt coming. Jim Ply, one of our members from Beverly Hills PD sent all of his shirts because he knew here we were all cops or ex cops. Now Gary's an ex cop since he retired. I'm an ex cop. Chris is still a cop. And then Brian Rutland, operations manager, he's still a cop. So we're either cops or ex cops. So Jim Ply sent all four of us Beverly Hills PD shirts. So that's for Chris that we want to give to him because we just got those in recently. He hadn't been down in a while. And then considering he's been with us the whole time, he's also getting his I did it with hog's shirt. So we're gonna give him that. And then we're trying to get him to get in front of the camera and do some presenting. And if he decides to do that, then he's gonna get our cool polo shirt.
Those are nice polos.
They are nice polos. And so there's those two shirts. He is CFI instrument rated, getting ready to work on his double eye. So I said, well, why don't you come down and help us while you're refreshing? Because he's inside and he's using the new instrument online ground school, we just gave him access to that yesterday so he could start going in and not only use it to refresh his memory as he's getting ready to do his double eye, he can also help us evaluate the program from outside looking in, give us some more insights. And so we've got, you know, Gary, me, Brian Tannen, Tez, and now we throw Chris into the mix just to help it all make a better program because it's. It's a team effort.
So.
Tell our viewers, Chris, just a little bit about who you are.
So let's see here. I'VE been flying since 2008. Got my private fixed wing first, then a year later switched over and started flying helicopters. I was with a different instructor at first, and then about halfway through that training, somehow Kenny and I found each other, and I've been with him ever since. But even back in the day when I first started, he had this notebook and pull it out and would ask me questions and, you know, quiz me and everything else. But, yeah, I've seen the original notebook that was. I don't know about what. Yay, thick and papers falling out of it and everything else.
So you went and created your own notebook when you did your cfi?
I did. I've got a notebook or a binder that's about that thick that I created when I was going through my CFI process, and it has helped me tremendously through working with students. It's always nice to flip back and look at my notes and test my students and then all the other paperwork that I have in there. But, yeah, so got my private with you. Commercial with you, CFI with you. And then I added an instrument rating a couple years ago, and I went out to St. Louis and did that, but.
And now the plan is to have Tannen work with Chris to get his double eye.
I think that's what we're gonna look at. Yeah, Tannen doesn't know that yet, but. Oh, Tannen, by the way, I might be working with you.
He'll be excited. Our instrument will be back fairly soon, so that's one option they have. An R44 might be available to us, might be another option. But Chris is gonna get freshened up with his knowledge on the instrument stuff, so he can take the instrument written and get his knowledge where it should be, then jump in with Tannin, do the flying, get his double eye. So anything I should add there, Gary? You can think of sounds good. One other thing I was going to say. What was it? So the instrument course at this time is still available for members. It's not open to the public yet, but we now have 46 videos in there, and it's really taking shape. It's looking good. Taz is still producing more videos. Tannen will be back in a week. I'm going to try to get Hauser here in front of the camera and maybe do some flight instruments and some other things as we're freshening up his memory. So I know I wanted to add. We also wanted to get Chris in front of the camera because several more than one of our members has said, hey, who are these other guys you talk about, we haven't seen them. So now just about everybody's been on the camera, with the exception of Chris. But now he's been in the camera. So there's one more, Brian Rutledge, who keeps telling us he's going to do a video and he hasn't done it yet. So the pressure's on for Brian Rutledge to appear in front of camera so people know that you're real and not just a figment of my imagination. Alright, well, hey, thanks for coming down today. Thanks for the history of your shirt.
Appreciate it. Look forward to doing more videos with you. If you know, I'll come prepared and have a lesson or something that we can do for the future.
Next time you'll see him, he'll be in his polo. Alright, give us a like and a share and we'll see in the next video.
