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All right, that was number seven. Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter land Ground school having some fun tonight. 220 to 2020 is almost out of here. And Heather, you're right. I was running the camera, so you didn't see me in any of those shots. You saw Brian and Taz. I was running off the camera the whole time with that big camera rig holding up everybody's head. So that was fun. That was video number seven. So I've got six more. And all we're doing simply. I thought this would be fun. I've been on YouTube 10 years, and YouTube keeps analytics and shows you what your top 10 videos are. Well, it goes farther than that, but I picked the top seven and I did lifetime, so I thought, you know, it'd be fun. Just something random to do tonight. Give some books away. So first book. Here it is. Top 10 checkride tips. Not a lot of people here. There's only 18, so you got a good chance at winning. We're going to give away seven, and then I'm going to have a big giveaway special code at the end. So let's type in exactly all caps, no spaces, the first person. And Heather's going to monitor this. I have a monitor right here, but Heather will be in charge of. And I'll try to call out the first winner. The code for the Christmas New Year's Eve sale that's ending tomorrow night. Xmas. So Xmas 35. Type that in the chat box. And first person to type that incorrectly, all caps, no spaces. Heather will ship this. So the winner, whoever you are, email heatherelicopterground.com and Heather will send you the book. So let me cue up the next video and let's see. Yeah, this will be kind of fun. This is back from my. When I was actually flying the EC135. And this is a pretty old video. This is from, like, I had to dig back to, like 2013 or 14, but it's still in the top 10 videos of 10 years and 900 videos. I wanted to mention. Do we have it? I see it. I don't want to get a better look here. It looks like Jeff Burke's got it. Yeah.

You didn't do all caps. I know.

I haven't been watching it. I stated all caps. It has to be done. All caps. So let me look Here. Yep. So all caps doesn't do it.

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All caps, no spaces. I'm pretty sure I said all caps, no spaces. Did I not? Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was all caps, no spaces. He just retracted the message. Okay, so move, breathe, freeze. Email heatherelicopterground.com with your shipping address. And next week after the new year, Heather will ship it out. So let's roll video number six of 900 videos. And I wanted to say I'm also celebrating 30,000 subscribers. I didn't make a big deal of it, but it happened this week, and to me, it was a big deal. I know some people channels, you know, six months, they got 30,000 subscribers. But, you know, that's like, it was a big deal to me. I've been waiting for that. You know, the first 10,000 mark was pretty cool. 20 was cool. But I've been waiting for a while watching, waiting for it to click to 30. And we just hit it in the past week. So it's just kind of a personal thing. Hitting 30,000 subscribers on YouTube. It's pretty cool. So let's roll the next video, and then we'll come back and give another book away.

So let's roll it now. Clear on the right.

You are clear left.

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That's making me think for a minute. Two of the top seven. I'm really not even talking in the video.

Hmm.

Maybe I shouldn't talk anymore. Maybe that's my problem.

Why?

It took me 10 years to get 30,000 subscribers. They just want to see the helicopter fly, and they don't want to hear me talk. All right, so let's see. We're going to do something different. Heather last time said, hey, you got to quit using the same thing to win every time, because people are wise to that and they start typing in ahead of time. Right. So we're going to do something different for this one. So to win the next top 10 checkride tips, book, type in the box Heather's email. But type it correctly. I don't care what you know. Do it all lowercase because you got to follow directions. You already know it. I've been saying it. Well, I'll even tell you. It's the first one to type it in correctly. Heatherelicopterground.com so the first person that types that in the box will get top 10 checkride tips. So I want to mention we do have a sale going until Tomorrow night, midnight, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. That's it. Last sale until spring. You know, those people get, you know, wore out on sales and I get wore out on sales, promoting all the time and doing stuff every day and putting out emails and doing videos and so we're going to take a break. So this is the last time to save. You can go right down below this video and Xmas35 is the code when you hit helicopterground.com. does anybody want a book? I don't see anybody win yet. So you can go right down there. Celebrating 30,000 subscribers on YouTube and looks like we got a winner. I see Paul, looks to me see, I shouldn't call out until I really take a good look. Alright.

Looks to me like.

I see Gabriel. Hey, Gabriel, when you gonna come see us? And it does look like Paul. So looks like Paul got it. I did say all lowercase, but whatever, Paul, you got it. So Paul, email your Shipping address to heatherelicopterground.com now the next video you're gonna have to hear me talk. This would be number five. So let me queue it up.

And here we go.

Out of 900 videos, this is like number five.

Let's do it.

Robinson Helicopter, Enstrom Helicopter. Which are you gonna pick? Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and I've had the opportunity to fly both of these great aircraft over the years as a student, I've flown them as an instructor, I've been paid to fly both. So I'm going to start with the two different rotor systems that they have. The NSTROM is a fully articulated rotor system and is called a high inertia rotor system, which I can tell you is very, very good. With the Robinson R44, it's a semi rigid system and depends on who you talk to, whether they call it a low inertia or a high inertia. Definitely more inertia than the R22, which is a good thing. One of the biggest benefits of the NSTROM and the high inertia system, the auto rotation rotation is absolutely incredible. If you enter it nice, it's not a lot of work. It's very, very stable. The semi rigid system on the R44, it's nice, it's smooth, it has some inertia in there. Auto rotations aren't too bad. They're pretty decent as well. So between the two, which is going to be better? That's something that people are probably going to argue back and forth. Rotor System on the instrument, I can tell you, is pretty darn tough. I survived a helicopter ground resonance incident about 10 years ago in the Enstrom 480. Basically the same rotor system. And even though the entire aircraft was destroyed, the rotor system remained intact. But the only thing that was left of the aircraft was the rotor system and the rotor blades pretty much unharmed. With the R44 and the semi rigid, there is something they call low g mass bumping that can be a catastrophic event. And the fully articulated system does not suffer from that low g mass bumping. So one thing there that probably would make me lean a little more toward the fully articulated on the instrument. So now, just in case you're thinking, oh, he's already going to favor the Instrum, let's go to the R44 and talk about some of the good things about the R44 that you don't have with the instrum. The R44 is a four place helicopter. You can seat two in the front and two in the back. The instrum they call a three seater, but to be quite honest, three reasonable sized adults, like three, you know, normal sized guys, they get in there and they're pretty squished in there. So to call it a three place, yes, it is a three place, but it's going to work best, best with say two adults and a child in the middle. Okay, then you can call it a 3, 6. So for the next plug for the Robinson, I personally think that the R44 as far as doing commercial operations is going to beat the instrument hands down due to the fact that, let's use the example of helicopter rides. If helicopter rides is the type of commercial thing that you want to do, you're going to be able to seat three people. Three pretty much normal sized people. You have a bigger engine so you have more available power. And for that operation, most definitely I've done helicopter rides with the Instrum. But again it's a three place, two and a half place, you have one person that might be a little on the heavier side. You're only going to be able to take up one person on that helicopter ride. So for a couple helicopters that are general vicinity of, you know, that price range of what somebody would be looking at for a personal aircraft or possibly doing some commercial commercial stuff as far as helicopter rides, you're not going to be able to beat the R44 hands down. And I know quite a few people out there doing like say crop dusting with R44. And I'm sure there's probably Some people doing it with the Instrum, but I don't hear about it a lot. It's more common, as far as I know, in the R44. Next we'll cover tail rotors for just a second. The Robison is known for having a really good design on the tail rotor and a very effective tail rotor. And I can also tell you that the tail rotor on the Instrum also has pretty good reviews and they say that it's a really good system and a really good tailrator tail rotor as well. As far as flying the two, I can't tell you that I notice any big, huge difference and I really would have no pick as far as which one would be the better. Next, I'd like to talk about the two as far as from a training, a training environment with the fuel and with the instrument. I like that a lot. Because it has two 20 gallon tanks. There's a factory fuel stick that's right inside the door. So for training or everyday flying, you go to fly to go climb in the pic seat and you just take that factory stick, put in the tank, you pull it out, you know exactly how much fuel you have in the tanks. With the Robinson, you have a main and an aux tank and you can carry more fuel with you on board. And it actually burns a little less per hour than the instrument. So you have more range. But it's just not quite as easy to, in your head, know exactly how much fuel is in there. You're kind of going by the gauge or by the fuel gauge. You can look in the tanks and check them. There's no factory stick to say exactly, I know how much fuel is in there. And a little harder to figure when you have two tanks with different sizes. So not a big deal. But as far as on a daily training basis, Instrum makes it really, really easy to know exactly how much fuel you have in your tanks. So next I want to talk about controls. Other big thing that people will talk about between the two aircraft. The Instrum has a standard cyclic like most any helicopter has, has two separate cyclics. One you can take out when you want to just be flying and not doing training. Then you can put the other cyclic back in when you're going to be doing dual. So this is one thing that we'll look at the Robinson in a minute that a lot of people have a complaint about and I'm going to give you my thoughts on that. This, of course, is nice. The other big thing is this does not have a governor, so it does have a Correlator, so you're operating the throttle, but it has a really good correlator, and it only takes a little bit of finesse to operate that throttle. So that's not really a big deal on the Robinson. It's a governor. And we'll talk more about that when we get over there. As far as pedals concerned, not a whole lot of to really say there, other than I think you have some more adjustment with the instrument over the Robinson. But for me, no real big comparison there. The other thing is the cockpit on the Instrum is definitely more roomy than the R44. So the instrum gets an A on the room, that I can tell you. So the Instrum can be a better choice for a heavier person and. Or somebody who's really tall. Not to say you can't fly the Robinson, but just in general, that's one thing that might want a person to kind of lead over to the instrument as far as what would be right for them in between these two helicopters moving over to the Robinson.

The one big thing here that everybody.

Talks about is this handle right here is the cyclic. When you're flying on one side, you do this, the other person's flying, you just do that. When you first start flying these, it's really strange and you won't like it. But to give Robinson credit, it.

It works.

And once you get used to it, it's really not a big deal. And it's not really different than anything else that you're going to fly. I know I started in Schweitzer's, and when I switched to Robinson, I didn't like it. And my instructor said, hey, it's still a helicopter. They all fly the same way. You'll get used to. It'll be no big deal. And he was absolutely right. Once I got used to that. Now does it bother me? Doesn't bother me a bit. And then again, we'll go to. The Collective. Does have a governor. A governor is nice because you can just turn the governor on and basically operate the collective up and down. And you really don't have to do any throttle adjustment in normal situations. So that to me really isn't a big deal either. You know, the governor is fine, the correlator is fine on the instrument. To me, not really a big deal there. Some people are intimidated if they learn with a governor. They're intimidated when they get into an aircraft without one. But it doesn't take long to. To really get them the feel of what it takes to fly with A correlator. It's really not that bad. So I guess the last big thing I would mention between the two would be maintenance. And I'm not going to go into numbers. I can't really tell you. I have owned an instrument. You know, any helicopter is expensive, hands down, across the board. The maintenance wise, I would venture to say that maybe the instrument takes a little more than the Robinson. But again, that's just kind of a guess without ever actually owning a Robinson. It's hard for me to make an exact on that. But the Robinson does have a pretty good reputation now. And that's one other place where I'll defend the Robinson. You know, there's a lot of Robinson haters out there, and Robinson got a bad rap back in the beginning. And I attended the Robinson School back in the late 90s, and they're very upfront and open about, about what went on with their helicopters in the beginning. And their safety over the years has improved, you know, hundreds of times over. So Robinson still has that stigma or that bad reputation from things that happened in the beginning. And it's a completely different company now. The safety record is so much better now. And I will say for Robinson, the training, as far as training goes, I think Robinson has the best training on the planet. Yes, there's a special Sfar, but in turn, because of those special Sfars, you know, you're held to a higher standard. And some of these things that you need to know for flying any helicopter, they really hit it a lot harder with the SFAR 73. So all in all, that's not a bad thing. If you train in the R22 or the R44, but particularly R22, when you move on to something else, you can jump into about any other aircraft. And that's true, especially like, say, jumping in a Jet Ranger. If you grew up in the R22, you can jump in a hydraulic aircraft like the Jet Ranger, and you'll be able to fly that thing all day long. Enstrom, the big plug for that one. It's a tough bird, man. I've, you know, as an instructor over the years, have I done some stupid stuff and had some autos that went bad and smacked the ground pretty hard that I've done.

And.

And I'm amazed at the beating that those aircraft can take. And the R22 as well. When I was brand new CFI, you know, we had a couple of bad events in R22 when I was brand new with the owner of the company who was just a weekend Warrior. He had a couple hundred hours and was just a private pilot and I trusted him too much and Auto went bad and we hit the ground and I have to say that the Robinson came out pretty well also considering the amount of force that was applied when we ended up on the Runway. So what would I pick, Robinson or Estrom? If I was going to buy one today, I would say what is it?

Am I going to be?

What am I going to be doing with that aircraft? If I was going to buy a helicopter to just have for fun and go out and fly and go where I want to go and enjoy myself and feel really, really super safe, I would pick the instrument. Okay, with that being said, if I was buying a helicopter today between the two of them and I was going to use one that I wanted to have for training and use for commercial operations, I would have to say I would pick the R44. So the question now is which one would you pick? Thanks for checking out this video. Please give us a like and a share and get those arguments going in the comments box below because I'm sure there's going to be plenty of them. So thanks again and we'll see you.

In the next video. All right, had to turn the furnace on. Hopefully that's not too noisy in the background. So for the next giveaway I'll give you a different something else, something different to type in there. Cuz the next video is going to be about going double IMC and Brian Rutledge, our operations manager, did a double IMC presentation quite a while back and I need to find that and see where that's at. We should dig that out. Brian was live with us a while back and I'm not sure if that's even in hogs. So what I want you to do and I want to tell you about Brian real quick with our ground school membership members. If you haven't had your 30 minute consultation with Brian yet, you have that coming to you and new members you sign up and after you sign up you get a 30 minute phone consultation. I like to call it a zoom consultation. We've got set up where you can pick times he's available and set up your time to do a zoom call with Brian and talk with him about your career, whether you're just getting started or whether you're doing a helicopter add on because Brian's a slash helicopter cfi/appplane CFI started flying airplanes 30 years ago. So a cool benefit of joining helicopter on ground school is this consultation you get with Brian. People are Finding that really, really super helpful. Helpful. And if you remember and you haven't.

Got that yet, that's available.

So what I want you to type in the box is and I don't care, uppercase, lowercase, I don't care, but at least a space. The next person to type in, Operations manager in the box, we'll have Heather ship you the book. So we're waiting on somebody to type in. Operations Manager William asked, hey, I'm new here. Who are you guys? Or what's this all about? We're helicopter Line ground school. I created this almost nine years ago. This is the HOGS Wall of fame behind us. These are our members that have got their private commercial instrument certified flight instructor ratings. We plaster them up on the wall. HelicopterGround.com is the link below. So if you're looking for some help with ground knowledge on a helicopter rating, then that's why we're here and that's who we are. Heather Height, you see in the. There we go. I see Operations Manager. Let me, before I speak, let me make sure I get this correct.

Yep.

And it looks like Jason. You got it. He got screwed last time when he didn't type it correctly. So, Jason, top 10 checkride tips. Email heatherelicopterground.com with your shipping address and Heather will ship you the book. So Heather is our member concierge. When you sign up for membership, Heather sends you a nice sweet email. After you get your automated email from the system, it sends you a, you know, access to the site right away. And then within 24 hours or so, Heather will email you welcome you make sure you got logged in okay. And offer you the link to get hooked up with Brian, the operations manager for your consultation. Very, very helpful for people because a lot of times you'll want to ask a question that you might not want to ask your flight school for whatever reason or there's a multitudes of things that he can help you with. Okay, so, and what we're doing tonight is we're celebrating 10 years on YouTube. 30,000 subscribers, 900 videos. I'm playing the top seven over the lifetime. So of course an older video has a better chance of being played than a newer video because some of them have been around for a long time, but we've already seen by number six and seven, they prefer just helicopters flying.

And me not talking.

But. And because I brought up Brian, I brought up double imc. And due to the time of year that we're in, this is a video that many of you have seen but I'm going to, we're going to play a little bit of it and I'm going to break it down because we're at that time of the year where if you're not thinking about inadvertent imc, you need to be thinking about it because we're there, right? We're December, almost January. And for us in this part of the world, in the Midwest, man, this is a big deal for us and we got to be on our ball all the time. Thinking about weather, looking at weather, making a good no go decision.

Where's my no go button?

We'll talk about that a little bit. So let's roll this video, come back a couple more book giveaways and then I'll throw out a special code for the first three people to jump on professional pilot at 50% discount. But as the email said, you got to wait to the end. So here we go. Pay attention to this one. This is a killer, man. Really is.

Hey, day 261, coffee with Kenny.

Normally, you know, these are really upbeat and you know, try to have fun.

And this today is a serious topic and I debated about doing this one, but I've been thinking about it and I want to cover this fatal accident in the R44. I think it was in Brazil or somewhere. And so many people have seen this video.

But I want to cover it again.

Just because when we're making these decisions, vfr, ifr, go, no go. We know people lose their lives going inadvertent imc. Okay, so what I want to show.

In this video is how blue the.

Skies are at the beginning of the video. I mean, you see right there, look, blue sky, got some big puffy cumulus clouds.

But you know, starting off, leaving the airport, blue skies.

And we see that a lot, right? And that's going to happen to you if you're brand new to this. A lot of people that watch our videos are experienced pilots and a lot of you have already experienced this and you already know what I'm talking about. This is, I guess I want to gear it more towards new people, right? When you start making these decisions about no go go and no go, that's why you have to understand the weather, the forecast, the Metars temperature, dew point, all the things that go along with that. Making these decisions on whether you're going.

To make a flight or not.

And then there's those times where you.

Have to call a flight off.

And all I know is what I.

See really in the video, there's not.

Much in the description about this, other than everybody died that's on this aircraft, I think you're going to see. And the main thing I want to hone in on is the fact that there were times where he should have just landed. And I want to point out some of those. So as normal, when you're getting ready to go, everybody's having a good time, right? Everybody's happy, it's a beautiful day. Bride and groom going for their flight. Beautiful day, Everybody's happy. It's exciting, right? This video is eight minutes along, so I'm going to kind of skip through here and there and show some pieces and parts of the video. So what I'll point out as they're a little bit into the flight, if you really look, look, you can see where there's still green grass, you can still see the ground, but it's, it's overcast now. Visibility, I'm just guessing, looks like it could be a couple miles. But now we're overcast and you can see the ground. But this is already the idea that it's getting ugly, right? So at this point a person needs me thinking, wow, is this a flight that I want to continue on? Especially in a VFR aircraft or about a minute and 51 into the video at this point right here where I stopped it.

So let's go a little further.

All right, here's a little better view as you keep watching where you can still see. Starting to get worse though.

Starting to get some more clouds.

You can still see the ground, but it's starting to get ugly. A little bit of clouds going by the side of the aircraft. It's going to get worse here in a minute. This is where they probably should have been turning around or getting on the ground. And you can see during this video, you can see their faces start to change. You can tell when they start getting scared and know something's wrong. Look at there. Look how we're getting even more clouds going by the window. Look at the visibility coming down. Okay, now look ahead, you can see.

Just a little bit.

He can barely see the ground at this point, but he keeps tooling along. So this is ugly. I would not be in this. And he should have been getting on the freaking ground. Alright, let's go a little further. We're three minutes in now and you can see his face. I seen his face. He's. He's worried, he's looking down at the instruments. People in the back are starting to look concerned. You can tell this guy in the back, I don't Know if he's a pilot or not, but you can tell he's getting nervous. He gets nervous before she does. Things are bouncing around. He's looking kind of funny. So it's already getting weird when you look outside of the window, you know.

It'S getting pretty thick.

It's getting really thick.

Why are we still flying? All right, now I can see in his face now. He is getting scared. He can still barely see the ground. We're four minutes into the flight or four minutes into this video anyway. Barely see the ground. Only wants almost nothing left. What's he do? Keeps flying. Now he's looking. Look where he turns here. He's got a turn going on. There's his opportunity right there. Boom, boom. He's looking out. You saw he was kind of turning or it looked like he was turning. He's looking to the right. He knows he's in freaking trouble, right? There was a green patch. He looks like he's kind of turning. Why didn't he just turn right? Descend, turn right, get on the freaking ground. We're 4 minutes and 29 seconds in. Let's go a little further now. I can see it in his face. He knows he's screwed. What was he thinking? Who knows? Other than I'm screwed. I'm going to get us out of this somehow. Why? Why do you keep going?

Why? Why? Why, why? Why?

Why?

I don't get it. Now you can see it in their faces. Getting even worse. Getting even worse. You know, we're done past the stupid point. Why is he still flying? I don't know. Five minutes in. So we've been flying into the soup for at least three to four minutes. And you can. And when you really look into the video, you can see it gets worse. It gets worse, it gets worse. Passengers looking outside going, what in the heck? They know this ain't right. She's trying to make fun of light of the situation because she's probably scared out of her mind. Five minutes, 30 seconds. Now I'm seeing nothing on this. I'm seeing nothing. You can't see the ground. Ground is gone. You don't see out the side windows. You don't see out the front. He is flying freaking blind in a VFR helicopter. We're six minutes in. I'm surprised they survived this long. There's normally 45 seconds when you go into the clouds before you're gonna lose it and kill yourself. So he's made it this far. And I guess. Look at his face. He's scared.

I'm Gonna turn up a little bit.

Of volume because I'm sure we're about to hear that low horn go off. Six and a half minutes, rotors coming down. Sounds like, here we go. This is where it goes, ugly. Seven minutes into the video. There, there it goes, there went the horn. You're going to see the aircraft turn. You're going to see the pilot like leaning all the way to the left or being forced to the left.

Seconds to hit the ground. Boom.

And there's the flashing light. You know, it just, it does, it turns the stomach.

It turns my stomach.

And I know I've viewed it before and I'm surprised this is Even really on YouTube, actually. But, you know, let's take it as a learning experience. That guy had a lot of time to make a decision to get on the ground and it went on, get out of here, fly.

And he just, God, why didn't he land?

Why did he keep going? I have no idea. It just, you know, it just makes you think. And there's those of us that have done stupid stuff and been in situations maybe that start to look like that.

I swear to God, I've never flown anything that bad for that long.

I have had some scares and there's those times where you, you push along and when that visibility starts coming down like that, I get freaking nervous. And there's a point where I'm just going to land or I'm going to turn around. And when I was younger, I'd be a little more risky, right? And the longer you're in this business and the longer you're around helicopters and.

The more people that you lose that.

You know, in aircraft accidents where someone, you know, flew into the clouds, ran out of fuel, walked into a tail.

Rotor, whatever the case is, you know.

You get, you get these wake up calls, right? And I just want to roll this today. And with all the talking that we do in 10 years of making videos, eight years of online ground school, I am always preaching about go, no go and knowing the weather and understanding. I wanted to share that video or take a look at just because you can see. Starts out beautiful day, little bit of.

Clouds, but hey, looks great, right?

And within five minutes of that flight, you went from, well, we can kind of see, but it's getting iffy. Plenty of time to get on the ground and they just kept going.

And I personally, I could see it in his face.

I could see it in the pilot's face. He knew he was, you know, he knew he'd overstepped his bounds. There and he knew it wasn't good. And I'm sure he was proud.

I'm not sure.

Shouldn't say I'm sure. I'm guessing that he was hoping he was going to pop out of it and he didn't. And it killed everybody.

Food for thought.

Day 261 Day to be negative Nancy. It's not being negative Nancy. I just. Man, it's just gut wrenching. It's just, it's gut wrenching every time I freaking watch that video. But you know, let's take these things and learn. And if you haven't reviewed your decision making lately, if you haven't reviewed weather, if weather's changing in your area like it is here. We're now into the beginning of fall for us here in the Midwest and this where it gets serious for us. You know, we've had kind of a.

Rainy summer but you still have a lot of really nice days where all.

You gotta do is look outside and you know, you know, severe clear, man.

You can fly for miles.

But we're gonna get into that area now where we're gonna start having fog and a month away or two months away from starting getting some snow. And this is when it gets hairy for us in the Midwest and it's just time to buckle down. So for those of you living in those areas, start thinking about fall, coming fall and winter and the temperature, dew, point spread and all that happy stuff that goes along with making these decisions. All right, thanks for tuning in for day 261.

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Live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com this is a fun night. But you know, watching that video, I turned the volume up and watched it. You know, it still makes me sick. Okay. And that's why we started this and we haven't talked about it in a while. For those of you waiting, we just ran out like a week ago or so. I had to put another order in. We shipped out 50 of these dudes so I had to put another order in. So they're on their way. Another order for those of you that we owe a no go button. We built this for this reason what was just in that video. And like Brian Retless just said there never be afraid to say no when conditions are not within your personal minimum. 30 year aviator there, sheriff's department pilot. I designed this because I flew EMS for five years. And the easy button's over there. Most of you probably know it. I learned a lot of really good stuff from a Vietnam era pilot. And in the EMS environment there's always the pressure to go no go. And they'll tell you they want to be safe. They, you know, hospital says, oh, we want to be safe. But the reality is they want to go. They want you to go with those patients and even though they say they want to be safe, deep down they want you to go. And this Vietnam era pilot I worked with brought one of these into work and he'd get a phone call and the weather's like, okay, it's 700ft in, or let's say 800ft in two miles. Not taking it. Declining for weather. This is probably dead now. He'd push the. That was easy. That was easy. Well, I wanted that. But you know the people that made the button goes, you better not do that. Probably be a copyright thing. So this Vietnam era pilot, that's what he would do. You know, he'd get the phone call, look at the weather and if it wasn't good enough, he'd just go. He'd turn the flight down, the dispatch hang up, boom. That was easy. So we designed the no go button and we send you these when you pass your checkride and send us a picture, people up on the hogs wall of fame. When you send your picture in, we send you the no go button. And this is to place wherever you make your weather decision, keep it at home, keep it on your desk at work, whatever. And you're looking at the weather and you're trying to decide because there's always those pressures, whether it's internal or from your company, news reporting, Gulf of Mexico, any job out there, you can be pressured by pilots, your family that wants you to get home, whatever the case is. No go button. So let's make that for the book giveaway for you. Till the next video. Let's just type in no go. The next person that types in no go. So very simply do it all caps, all caps. No go. I didn't say it right off that. So just no go. But no space Geo no go. First person that types no go gets the next book. Helicopter or I'm sorry, top 10 checkride tips. Heather will ship this. So once you win, you're going to email heatherelicopterground.com and she is going to ship you the book. So I'm going to queue up another video here. And so down below. There we go.

Move.

Breathe. Freeze. I think you won a book already, didn't you? Didn't you already win a book. Hmm. Move, breeze, freeze. Let's Heather, real quick. Type in there or mood breathe. Freeze, please. Didn't you already win the paperback copy? Okay, I see. Rog, Heather says Roger winner. I think that's fair.

Move, brief, freeze.

You already won. I should have said that. The beginning. But why would we want to ship you two books? Okay, so let's make that seems fair. Roger gets the.

Paperback.

I think that's only fair. And if you don't think that's fair, Move, brief, free.

Send us an email.

We'll talk about it. But I mean, you just won a little bit ago. All right. Oh, no, I wasn't giving the button. Did I say I was giving away the button? I don't think I said I was giving away the button. I don't think I ever said that. I said you get the no go button after passing your checkride and send us a picture. That's how you get the no go. And we've been pretty explicit about that. So I know I didn't say it because we've kept this. You know, people have wanted to buy them, you know, and they've asked them for other giveaways. And Heather's like, no, you're not giving those out to anybody. Those are for the members. And they sent us the picture. So. Authority. Heather, only way you get the no go button is pass your checkride, send us your picture. Hogs wall of fame. We've been updating all week. I did a video last night where I showed everybody. Oh, yeah, let me add this. Got two emails from people that sent us pictures that didn't make up on the hogs wall wall. Could be my fault. You know, my emails just get carried away sometimes and maybe an email slipped by. If you watch that video and you're not up there, I mean, I'm 99% confident that we have everybody that's ever sent a picture up on that wall. But two slipped through. The one guy sent a video, he didn't send a picture. So I guess he wanted me just to clip a picture out of his video. But one other guy emailed us and said, hey, why is my picture up there?

There?

So I emailed it to Heather. So if you watch that video and you're not up there, we'll get you up there. But we've done our best to try to get every single picture that anybody has ever sent us in eight years. I have tried to make sure every single picture is on there. We don't take it lightly when you Send us a picture. Okay. And I'm not going to sit here and debate. It looks like I see some arguments going on there. Heather, Heather, do what you got to do. If we got to send a free book because I misstated something we can go through, obviously and look at in chat. But I'm not going to cheat anybody out of a book. If you, if you think you fairly want a book, we'll get it to you and we'll work that out. So email heather helicopterground.com the chat will be there. This will be there. Even after the video renders, we can go back and look, make sure we want to keep everybody happy. Right. I'm not going to cheat you out of book. I just had to call out move breeze freeze. Because that's was wasn't sending two books of the same book. Okay, so let me queue up the next video some more Danger. Okay.

And this one.

Yeah, I shouldn't speak. I think I remember what this one is. But this is in the top 10 since the top seven. This is number three, I think. And this is an older video. It's been around for a while. Let's just roll it. You might be able to make fun of me. I think there's some old green screen with me in here. Here, let's go, let's go. Check it out.

If you're one of those people that.

Think accidents only happen to the other guy, I'm here to tell you they can happen to anybody and they can happen on a beautiful day when everything is going exactly as planned. In this case, this was the seat of the aircraft that I was in. This is where I ended up, about 30 or 40ft away from the helicopter. It's over there behind the ambulance that you can see here in the picture. I'm here to tell you they can happen to anybody at any time. Today I want to cover. Never exit the helicopter with the engine running. And I'm going to tell you why. One of our members just sent me an email just today and he was upset and he said, I just lost a friend and one of my instructors because he left the helicopter while the engine was running. Please teach your students to never leave the helicopter until the engine is out and the blades come to a full stop. So the point is these things happened. I'm going to give you three more reasons. One would be Robinson's safety notice number 17. Never exit the helicopter with the engine running and they go through and talk about what happens and people get killed, people get hurt. Robinson Safety Notice 18 Overconfidence prevails in accidents. And they talk about how people get brave and cocky and, oh, nothing bad's gonna happen to me. That's when it happens. And the third one, Robinson, safety notice number 23. Walking into tail rotor can be fatal. I know a fellow CFI that exactly this happened to. He landed somewhere. Somebody come walking up, walked into the tail rotor. That's somebody I know, a mechanic I know, very experienced, great mechanic, gets sent all over the world to work on helicopters. One day he was doing some tracking and had the blades spinning, and he turned to pick up a tool and he said when he turned around, there was the tail rotor right in his face. He almost goofed. And he knew better, he was trained better, and he still almost did it. And then the third instance right here happened in Indiana a few years ago. It was a crew member on an aircraft. The crew member was trained. They knew better. They landed at a helipad, and it's helipad I've landed at many times. Got out, walked out, didn't duck, got hit in the head with the main rotor and was fatally wounded. The last point I want to make. For five years, I flew helicopter ems, and I worked for a great company called Omniflight Helicopters. It was a super company. And we were not allowed to exit the aircraft until the blades were done moving. So we weren't kids, we weren't students, we were experienced pilots. And they didn't allow us to get out with the blades moving. There's probably a good reason why we're always talking about sharing and tweeting and liking. Here's one you ought to share, because you might just save a life, maybe even your own. All right, so in light of that video you saw helicopter checkride, and the next video is going to include this young man right here, Travis. So for this giveaway, let's give away a helicopter check ride. So let's just do that. Let's just type in the box helicopter checkride. First person to type in helicopter checkride. Let's make sure there's spaces. I don't care about caps. Helicopter checkride. Type it in. Because this gentleman right here you're gonna see in the video and I've. In that video you just saw, there was an older cover. I updated the COVID since we made this video, and I actually met Travis. This is such a great story. He. I won't bore you with the story, but clear back when we got started, like 2013, kid calls me up. 13, 14, hey, man, I'm gonna go through off the street to CFII in six months, and they're gonna give me a job at Sevier county choppers. And I was doubtful and thought, yeah, right. Well, he proved me wrong. Six months later, he was a double I and they gave him a job teaching. And within like six months or a year, he was flying a jet ranger. I went down there with another student. We went down there in an R44 for some main maintenance and I flew with him. He took me up flying. This kid proved me wrong. And I'll plug Sevier county choppers. They don't pay me anything, but those guys have a real deal. You've got to be motivated. You got to go there with the money and be ready and be ready to study and live there and live, eat, breathe helicopters for every day. Six months off the street to double I. This kid did it. So I wasn't even looking. I'm gonna let Heather handle that. I'm trying to run cameras and stuff. So Heather's in charge of the first person that typed in helicopter checkride. So let's go check out Travis and Yeah, here we go. Just takes me a minute to run things. Heather's at home and chat. All right, here we go.

All right, I'm gonna do a quick video for you. I question a lot and have over the years, people say, kenny, is it worth it?

All you go through the headache, the.

Heartache to become a helicopter pilot. And I've answered the question many times. But I have a young man here.

Named Travis Greg, one of my ground.

School members that two and a half years ago was starting from off the street.

Two and a half years later, he's a double eye.

Did all of his training in six months from off the street to certified flight instructor.

Two and a half years later, he's.

In the smoky mountains flying a long ranger. Just took me and a friend of.

Mine up in the jet ranger and took us a little flight around. And I can tell you, two and.

A half years later, this guy's living the dream. And you know, it's not an easy road, but I just asked him to.

Real quick just tell us to have him answer the question. Is it worth it?

Well, it is worth worth it if you really want it. It's something that a lot of sacrifices that you got to make financially. If you're willing to do it, you got your finances together and you want to do it and make a career out of it, then that's great. It's something, you know, I've asked myself time and time again as I did it. And I guess my words of wisdom is to look, look into your school, look into your training, your instructions, structures, and try to find kind of a goal. Trying to find a dead end goal or an end goal to where you can, you know, make sure you got a paved road where everything works out. Myself, I've had a lot of help. The school that I went to was Sevier County Choppers. Mr. Kettler here, Kenny helped me out a lot. Just everything from check rides to preparation to orals. The online ground school played a significant role in my training and helped me be able to get through everything. You know, it's one of those things. If I can do it, I'm pretty sure anybody can do it. Some people just read things one time and I usually have to read at 4, but you know, it worked for me. Pretty accelerated program. But I'll have to say at the end of the day, it's worth it.

Well, that's why want to add to that? You know, I tell people normally, you know, hit it hard and you'll do it in a year maybe. He did it in six months. And when he first talked to me on the phone and told me about this program he was going to go through, I was skeptical. I thought, okay, you know, all that money and do it in six months and be done.

And he had the opportunity to most.

Likely get a job at the end of the training.

Well.

Well, here we are two and a half years later.

He did it.

He did it in six months.

He got a job and in a very.

How long before you moved into the Long Ranger?

About four months.

Four months.

He was flying a turbine aircraft. There's guys out there five years later trying to get their first turbine job. So the opportunities are out there and you can do it. And there's another opinion on is it worth it?

All right, thank you.

Anything else you want to say?

Okay.

Okay. Getting down to number one. Number one video has over 6 million views and it is a really cool video and probably a lot of you have never seen it. If not, let me give you just real quick. Oh, yeah, Book giveaway. Let's see. Book giveaway. Let's do one more top 10 checkride. Tip, tips. And let's type in Jed. J, E, D. Jed.

Because that's.

Oh, just so happens that's Jed on the picture of this book. I didn't even. I didn't do that on purpose. Seriously. As I thought. Jed. Type in Jed. Jed, that's the kid right there on the COVID of Top Gen Checkride. Chip, he's in the video. You're going to see 6 million views. This kid came to me fresh out of high school, walked in with his parents. They set up an appointment to come in and talk to me. And, you know, he came in the door and said, I want to be a helicopter pilot. Wait till you see what Jed does for a living. This, this is cool. All right. I see some Jeds in there. I'm gonna let Heather handle it so I can get the video rolling for you. I just, I went down to see before I roll the video. I am flying ems and I hadn't heard from Jed for a while, and I knew he was out in the world chasing, you know, his helicopter jobs and stuff after he got his ratings. And he's one of the few people that never became a cfi. He found other ways to build his time, and almost nobody does that. And he got hired by this company back before they had an hour requirement. And they said, you go to work for us, you drag change fuel, helicopters, stock trucks, you be, you know, you take the shitty work and prove yourself and we'll put you in the helicopter and train you. And they did. So here's a kid, I'm so proud of him, and when he invited me down to Southern Indiana to see him work, I was blown away. And I mean freaking blown away. So let me key it up here. Where is it? Okay, there it is. All right, here we go. And then we're going to come back, we're going to do a special code for three lucky individuals do 50% off a professional pilot. Here we go. Six million views. I think approaching seven million.

Well, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of.

Helicopter Online ground school and author of the book Helicopter Checkride. I had the privilege to go see one of my former students that started out with me over 10 years ago as a new kid right out of high school. And now he's a helicopter tree saw pilot. I spent two days watching him and his partner work the operation, the helicopter tree sawing, and it was absolutely amazing. These guys work awesome together as a team. They work a crazy schedule. 28 days on, 28 days off. They work really hard while they're away from their families and then they get a break and get to go home for 28 days. This is an absolute amazing helicopter pilot job. I've been in and around helicopters for 20 years and I was completely and entirely amazed by this operation. The tree saw hangs below the helicopter from aluminum tube, and the tube basically just is a carry mount for the Saw. The saw itself has a gas motor that drives the saws with a belt. The pilot operates the saw from inside the helicopter. He could start the unit, get the blade spinning and get them up to rpm. And he can also turn the saw in relation to the helicopter, depending on how he's cutting. The skill, to fly this helicopter and manage the saw and stay safe and clear of the power lines. Keep track of everything going on on the ground. Make sure that you're not going to cause any damage to persons or property on the ground. It's just simply an amazing feat.

It.

If you enjoy this video, please give.

Us a like and a share and leave your comments down below.

Sam it. All right.

Isn't that flipping incredible? Oh, my God. I'm telling you, the first time I went down there to meet Jed. Oh, my God. And I. I just stood there in amazement watching him. I was just like, oh, my God. And he couldn't take me up with the saw attached, but he took me up and flew me along the power lines. And he goes, look down there along those power lines, buddy. And it was just. I mean, just as stray as an arrow for miles, right? And I'm like, jed, the power lines are like six feet away from your rotor blades. And he's like, yeah, I know, dude. They're like that all day long, you know? And I'm going, you're in the high velocity diagram. He goes, yeah, yeah, all day long. I'm like, what about the HV curve and selling with power and all that stuff? And he goes, it's on my mind all day, every day. That's where we fly. Unbelievable. Six million. I knew that would be a popular video. I didn't think it would be 6 million views. Our channel hit 10 million views this year, which was a big deal. I thought that was a cool. I kept thinking, man, when I hit 10 million, had a lot of firsts this year. So 10 million views on the whole channel again. Hey, just my little channel. Some of the big dogs, right? They got a lot more than that. But for me personally, I liked it in 10. 10 million views. That was cool. And 6 million on that, but freaking amazing. I did see. Brian answered.

Yes.

He can jettison that saw at any time. Absolutely.

All right.

Hopefully Heather's taking care of everybody in there. So the giveaway, since you hang around clear to the end. Three lucky winners, not winners. You still got to spend money, so you're not a winner. But the code I created right before I went live and I'm going to go home and eat supper. And I'm going to watch this. And after three people sign up, I'm.

Going to delete it.

It's going away. New Year 50, so common spelling, all caps, no spaces, New Year 50. But you got to go to helicopterground.com below, click on that link and go to Professional Pilot. You'll find it right on the homepage and just click the button below that and you'll enter that code in there and that will give you 50% off. You're gonna get that for half price. Probably the last best deal ever on that. Because I've been threatening for six months that January 1st, that was gonna go up in price. And it is, it just has to. It's just the way it is. So after tomorrow night, strike them, stroke of midnight, you're not gonna see that for that price anymore. Where it's at, it's going up. And I've been threatening it for months. So at 50% off at this price, you'll never buy it this cheap again. So the first three people that grab it with the code NEWYEAR50 in the box below you got it for 50% off. And then until midnight tomorrow night, any other membership, 35% off. And we did something cool on this one too. You know, the world's gone crazy. Got to make a sell better than normal. Maybe Christmas time, people are hurt.

Curtain.

What we did. Normally when we do a discount on a sell, we on the monthly memberships, we just make it for the first month only and then you go to the normal price. So what we did for this one, if you sign up for any monthly membership, 35% off, there goes the furnace getting cold in here. 35% off is good for as long as you keep that membership. Whether it's one month, six months, months, a year and a half, doesn't matter. You're going to be locked in at 35% off. That's good. Until tomorrow night, that goes away. I don't know if we'll ever do that again, maybe. But that's not what we've done in the past. We've had the monthly memberships for going on three years now. And I'm pretty sure we've never done that before. We've always just given discount on the first month and then you. Of course, any of our monthly memberships, you can keep as long as you like. Like you can cancel anytime, you can come back anytime. That's the beauty of the monthly memberships. And that's why we've moved to that, mainly for what we Offer because it's just handier for people. You can get what you need for as long as you need it. You can cancel and then you can come back. Because so many people like me, you know, I saw Gabriel, made six years, taking him six years to get to where he wants, right? Took me over four years off the street to professional pilot or to commercial cfo. I had to take breaks in there because I'd run out of money, right? So it would be like, okay, I'm this far through my private, I got to take a break, go work hard for a little bit, sell some stuff, try to make some money. I was doing, I was in the towing business for 10 years, big heavy duty truck. So like I need to go out and make it, hopefully get another big semi wreck, make some good money, right? Anyway, so for the monthly, you can sign up, use the training for 30 days, unsubscribe anytime you want and you come back as many times as you like. And that works really well. So depending on who you are, man, if you want to just go straight through and do six months, you can hammer it for six months and it's going to be less than the professional pilot. So the monthly is a great deal. You keep as long as you like, cancel anytime. And the monthly has a 24 hour test flight. So you can go in, sign up down below@helopterground.com before midnight tomorrow night. You get a 24 hour free test flight, meaning you can log in, go look at the training that you're interested in and you can see the whole site. We don't just give you a little sample. And I've looked at the competitors and they, oh, here have section video one, you know, oh, here have our first chapter. No, for 24 hours you can see the whole damn section tight. Private pilots got 120 videos, 18 hours training. If you can watch 18 hours of video straight, you can do that and unsubscribe before 24 hours is up, you paid nothing and you got 18 hours training. We've had that in place since the beginning along with our 100%, no hassle, ironclad money back guarantee. And Brian and Heather can tell you I stand behind that 100%. Over the years I've had people say, oh man, I wouldn't do that and well, maybe you shouldn't. And I'm like, now this has been in place since day one. We're going to celebrate nine years online March 1, 2021. We've always had a 100%, 30 day money back, no Hassle guarantee. Which means if you try any membership, you got 29 days to go. Hey, wasn't for me. Just email the simple refund request. That's it. And we don't, you know, give you a call. We don't hassle you with emails. I've had other people that work for me, so. Well, why don't we call them and try to, you know. Nope. A refund is a refund. Ironclad, 100%, 30 day money back guarantee, man. All you gotta do is ask for a refund. I've been seeing that go like crazy. I'm gonna crank it off now. I don't think there's anything else for you now. I don't think I can catch up on all those comments. I'll be keeping you all sitting here while I'm trying to read. Thanks everybody for tuning in. It was fun. That tree saw, man, let us know how you liked it tonight. Put the comments below the video even after that. Done. We'll do something like this again. This is fun. All right, everybody, have a good new year. Stay safe tomorrow night. You know the drill. If you're gonna have a good time, just don't have too good of a time. All right, thanks everybody. And one last thing. Hogs Wall of Fame, we thank all of you, man. I mean, nobody believed me in the beginning that I could do it and. And almost nine years later, I'm still here. And we're super proud of our members and super proud of that Hogs Wall of Fame behind us and just turned into a really, really, really, really cool deal. All right, see you next.

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