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Here we go in three, two, one. There's the yaw, there's the engine needle down collective app cyclic. Looking for that 60.

What you just saw was the entry to how they're doing a straight in in the R22. We're going to get right back to that video and let you see how they're out messing around. Then we're going to come back and we're going to talk about an update to aircraft registrations that you may or may not know already. Update to the first advanced auto course that started yesterday. Going to update you there. We're going to update you on the R44 that's on its way home. And we got a new box of goodies over here. We're going to bring up and show you what's included in the professional pilot membership. We're going to give you number three of seven steps to Private pilot. We're going to talk about the 13 year sailing celebration that starts March 1st. And I'm going to tell you a cool clone story about a flight instructor and his students at a flight school using our clone and do an update with that and show you something really cool and how cool the clone really is. And then we're going to tell you about the Howser Hunter team. So Howser's going to be back next week flying the R22. We're going to have Hunter up here who's our newest part time instructor. We're going to do some filming, some other fun stuff. So we're going to tell you about that after we go back and finish Howser's video. And this is just Howser going out a few days ago just to kind of get started warming up before our advanced auto guy got here. So we thought we'll share to you. Share to you. We'll share to you just a little bit of Howser going out and working on a straight in auto and kind of get his terminology. But there'll be more to come on that. That was Howser just warming up last week. So next week we're going to work on filming them and getting close in on the panel because I know you always ask for that. Can we see the panel? This cool little stabilized camera that Lindsey's holding right now, we're going to use that in the aircraft and get you some nice panel shot for autos. And actually we're going to reshoot all the video. Actually we're shooting brand new maneuvers for all the R22 maneuvers that go inside our R22 course. So let's Finish Hauser's video, then we'll be back to talk about all the rest of this fun stuff.

All right, let's, let's do an auto, see what happens. Just straight in auto here. What I usually do with the autos with students is I start them up high and then we work our way down. So maybe we'll go up to 1800ft.

Or so.

Enter the auto and then for the first couple times, I'm not too concerned about a spot. I mean yes, we want to, you know, at least have a general idea of the spot, but I'm more concerned about technique first and then we'll worry about hitting a spot. Warsaw traffic. I'll go up to 346 Victor hotels on the left. The way I teach these is I like to be at yes, I'm starting a little higher, but I like we eventually will be at cruise airspeed and your normal cruise altitude. There's no point in practicing autos at 2,000ft if you're never ever going to be cruising at 2,000ft. Most of the time when I fly, I'm 800ft above, above the ground. So that's where I should practice it. But right now we're going to continue climbing. We're going to come on up a little bit more just to get us some time in the glide. Two indications of a engine failure. Your first two that you should always say is yawl to the left and a counterclockwise aircraft. And engine needle is gone, engine needle dropped. So yaw to the left, engine needle down to nothing. And then you can always add the other stuff like you don't hear the engine or you know, maybe cylinder head temp is through the roof or none at all or whatever. But your first two you should always answer with yawl to the left and a counterclockwise and inch needle down to nothing. Alright, we're still continuing to climb here and this is a planned event and this is a power recovery. So we are still going to do our pre landing. So warning caution lights are off, needles are matched up temps and fresh Looks good. Still got plenty of fuel for what we're doing. Landing lights still on so we're looking pretty good. So there's 1800. Let's get to cruise airspeed here. All right, coming on around Warsaw traffic. Helicopter 3, 4, 6 Victor Hotel is on the left face. Turning final two seven or so.

All right.

And what I will do is I will never surprise somebody. We'll always count it down. It might be a quick one, but Robinson does not want us surprising anybody by rolling throttle down. So we always announce it. I may just say, hey, engine failure. Three, two, one. And now we have an engine failure. But I just don't do it. Just don't roll throttle off or anything like that. Alright, so we're looking good. 1800 lined up on 2.7. We're just going about our day. Having a fun day because it's beautiful out. All of a sudden you think you hear a sputter in the engine. You start looking at gau, just don't really see anything. So you're keeping an eye on it. Think you might hear it again? Still not sure. And your traffic Cherokee four one zero four is a cool to turn left. Base three one Andrews. All right, so again we've lost about 100ft here. Trying to keep the speed up, add a little power here.

All right.

See how this is. We're gonna have a little bit of a right quartering headwind.

So let's see.

Here we go in three, two, one. There's the yaw, there's the engine needle down. Collective aft cyclic. Looking for that 60. Maybe just a hair up on the collective. Keeping that needle in the green. We're looking good. Holding it.

60.

They have to adjust collective. Keeping that scan going. Holding 55 on airspeed. Needles are looking good. This is going to be a power recovery. Okay, tree top level. We're going to start that flare. Here we go. Little bit of a flare. The flare gets more aggressive. Roll and throttle in. Let governor take over. Stay on top of your pedals there as she settles. Not too bad.

I like.

Looks like I got my nose off to the side just a little bit. But overall, not doing one in a while. I think I look pretty good.

Something cool that we want to tell you about is one of our recent CFI members. He was here a few months ago and he recently emailed me, said, hey Kenny, I've been using the clone and thank you, this is great. And our students have been using it. And he said it's been flawless. He said, I found one thing in the clone though that was outdated. And he said it still tells us that it's three years instead of the new seven years on aircraft registration. So what I'm going to show you shortly is how we update the clone and I'm going to show you how it worked just since yesterday, basically. Yesterday I showed you my new certificate without the expiration date. So when Hauser was here before he left, I just told him, hey, this, I told him how we update Videos. And he goes, what? I go, yeah, here, watch Hauser. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to activate the voice.

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Hey, so I heard that you just renewed your CFI under the new regulations where after the 24 months, you can still get reinstated. Did you just do that? And can you tell me more about that? Ah, you're absolutely right.

My CFI did expire in December and I took care of it in January. Under that new three month grace period, I jumped on the online course, knocked it out and got everything submitted. And let me tell you, it was a huge relief to see that new certificate come in the mail. This new rule is a game changer for instructors like me who might miss the renewal window before if you let it lapse, you were stuck scheduling a full reinstatement check ride, which is a whole ordeal. Now with that extra time, you can still get it done without the stress of a check ride hanging over your head. So, yeah, I've been through it firsthand and I can confirm it works. Do you have any specific questions about the process?

That's it for now. Thank you. The cool thing is I knew that I hadn't updated that yesterday. So yesterday's video, I did that in the video. And Lindsay uploads these videos to the clone. So the clone gets updated information. So since that student or past CFI pointed out that, hey, this needs change now, it should be changing the clone because we have updated the private pilot study guide. We updated this with our latest version. We put in the ACS verbiage instead of practical test standards, and we updated that. The aircraft registration is now seven years. It was three years. It's now seven years. And there, boom. We just updated the clones. So. And we'll test that tomorrow, make sure the clone's updated and understands now that it was three years. For many years. Now it is seven years. There's an example of our a past FAC CFI guy out showing his students the clone. And he said, we're all using it. He goes, dude, it's phenomenal. Askhogs.com that's what we're talking about. You go to the clone. So that's how we're keeping the clone updated. We're sure it's 97% accurate, right? And over Time. As things change, we keep making videos. Load them in the clone and you'll get the updates. We had to do the no go today. Had to hit the no go button. We were all here this morning, but the visibility and the ceilings just weren't very good. So CW decided he wanted to come home and come back on another day. He hung around because Heather brought in homemade chicken for sandwiches. And so I said, you got to at least stay and have lunch. And we hung around and talked, but the visibility was improving and the ceiling was improving. However, Hauser wanted some really good visibility and really good ceiling. So when they go out to do zero autorotation and 360 degree auto rotation and these different things, you want to be, you know, all kinds of different airspeeds and altitudes and we want CW to get that full effect. And there's Taz. They're on their way. The R44 there. We've been tracking their flight, we've been posting on social media. I fell behind on making their last post. They're making it today. The R44 will be got our mechanics probably within an hour or two. And then we're all going out later to the old Rex's rendezvous. Me, Jason and Taz for the and Lindsay as well and Lindsay's husband who'll be running open mic night. Those of you that have come for the FA C. Everybody that's went with us to Rex, this has had a good time and know that it's like the thing. So that's happening. So the R44 going to the getting dropped off with the mechanic tonight so he can get it inside, get started on the annual. Hopefully maybe mid next week. The R44 will be home with fresh 100 annual ready to go. So that's exciting. I got in the mail and I had to open it up last night and I did this on social media because I couldn't stand it. So our latest backpacks have arrived and now I can tell you I have been carrying mine. Here's mine that I carry every single day. This goes home with me every night and comes back with me every day to the airport. I carry my laptop, you know, and just my day to day items that I want to have with me. It travels with me. It's been to Vegas and it goes back and forth. So I've been beating this around probably a year and a half now and it freaking looks like new. So we just got another load in. So with professional pilot you get your choice during the sale while supplies last because we're going to run out. You can get a backpack or you can get the famous because we're helping making it famous. Your badass kneeboard. And again, I have no paid endorsements of any kind. Nobody endorses me for anything. I purchased these, this young man sent me a couple years ago. And I really like them. So now I occasionally buy them for giveaways and I just ordered five more. And we were talking about them during our seven steps to private pilot. So we have these available. He's shipping five on the way. So we have five of those coming. And then we have 12 hats coming, which Hauser's down for one. Do you need one, Lindsay? You already got one. So Hauser's down for one. So we're gonna have some hats. So you can have your choice of the Hogs ball cap, which is a super nice hat. It's a not a cheap hat. None of the stuff we buy is cheap. We buy the good stuff. And we're going to show you shortly number three of the seven steps to private pilot. We're going to cover that here in a minute. We got a video on that 13. We're tomorrow. No, Friday. Friday, Saturday. Saturday is March 1st. And that's the official start of our 13 years online celebration. You are a follower of yours. So it's on now. Lucky 13. My daughter's birthday's on the 13th. 13 is a great number. Some people think it's a bad number. I think it's a great number. So we use Lucky 13. You know, play on that. See Lucky 13. We thought it was a good idea. 50 off any course. But with propilot you get one of the specials. Your choice. How the heather will reach out to you after you sign up and we will ship you your choice. And what else we got? Oh, so I did the CFI story already on the clone. That's cool. And then Hauser Hunter team, you know Chris Hauser from if you've been watching videos in the last week, you've been seeing him around with us for years. I trained Howser years ago, back before hogs Private commercial cfi. Hauser's now my right hand man. We should probably give him a chief pilot or a lead instructor or some kind of a title. But he's my right hand man. Been helping me with FACS for the last year. And now we're bringing in Hunter, which we've mentioned in a few posts. Hunter is our newest cfi. Hunter has a full time job. He's a full time law enforcement officer like I was And Hauser was. And now Hunter is a law enforcement officer looking to do what we've done right. At some point he wants to move on to full time pilot so he fits right in with the crew. Okay. We really like Hunter. Super motivated individual, young guy. He came up here and did his commercial with us. Heather, is that right? Commercial and CFI. He came here for both his commercial and circumstances CFI. He's now qualified in the R22 and R44. He's been working with Hauser off and on for years on his ratings. So he didn't just fall off the turnip truck. He's been flying with both of us. He's been with me going to Chicago and back a couple times on Time Builders last summer. And we have a lot of faith in Hunter. So we're going to get him in here next week flying with Hauser and I both just to get him freshened up and ready to fly with anybody that wants to come do some flying with us. And gonna get him freshened up and we're gonna do some fresh videos. Heather's gonna wear hogs gear. We're gonna get out in the R22, do some flying. Hopefully be flying the R44 by the end of the week. We'll be sporting hopefully some new hogs Polo with the logo. Polo with the logo. We I finally ordered some. So those hopefully will be in tonight because something's coming every day. Something new is arriving. It's been fun. It's like Christmas. I think that's it. So now we can. Oh yeah, we did the Houser video already. Right? We rolled that already. So now we are going to show you step number three of the seven steps to private pilot. We're back to seven steps to private pilot number three. Clear the first hurdle. Pass the FAA written and I want to talk about that because we have people sometimes that show up. They've been through almost everything, requirements are done and they came here and we had one guy specific for CFI and he didn't do the 25 question add on for a written test. He was under the impression another flight school said oh well you don't need one. Well there is one. And our examiner says if there's one in the database then you have to take it. So we had the check right scheduled. Problem is going in last minute. You take the written test, it has to populate in the FAA website and almost delayed the checkride. Luckily everything went through many years ago. Somebody said it's a really good idea to get the FAA Written test done prior to solo. And I agree with that. Yes, it's a lot of studying in the beginning as you're going through your training. However, the reason somebody along the way said that get the written test done before your solo. I understand the concept. Once you start soloing and working on finishing everything up for the rating to go take the test, you really don't want that FAA written test hanging there in the balance. And you're still trying to work on that. And you're trying to get your requirements done. You're trying to get all your solo time done. It just kinds of throws, it kind of throws a wrench in it. And people always, people will say, oh, well, I'm working on it. Well, I'm going to take it next week. Oh, and then, well, I was going to take it last week, but, you know, my dog ate my, you know, written test paperwork or whatever. Right. Like stupid excuses. So it's really, really smart to get the FAA written test done early because then you can put that to sleep and focus on the next steps of getting through the test. So we have a couple of options for you. And there are other options out there on the Internet, but one of them that we have is called the Private Pilot Study Guide. And our operations manager, Brian Rutledge, went through and thought of, or not just thought of. He actually went through the PTS at the time. We've now updated it with the acs. Went through and just thought of every single thing he could think of. Turned out to be about 400 questions that we have in this book. And the beauty of the book is it's only in spiral bound and it's not a digital product because we want you to be able to sit down. And we'll use the first chapter as an example. We go through and we ask all the questions and you have room to write in your answer. And then the second half of the book is the same question repeated with the right answer. And we learn through repetition. So going through it, it's your book, you can do what you want. But the idea is you write down the answer to each question and then go test yourself. Because we learn through reading, we learn through writing, we learn through going, okay, how close was my answer to the appropriate answer? And we have this thing broken down into airworthiness. Let's start with the first one. Certificates and documents, airworthiness requirements, weather information, cross country airspace, performance and limitations, operations, operation of systems, aeromedical factors, general aerodynamics. I always have trouble saying aerodynamics, but anyway, this is going to help you for not only the oral test, but also for the written test. Then also inside helicopter land ground school for private pilot, instrumental pilot, commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. We have written test practice at the end of each course. So we have quizzes through the different lessons because each lesson has multiple videos and there's a quiz at the end of each lesson. Then at the end of the full course there is FAA written test practice. It pulls from over 400 questions in a 100 question test. And it's set up like the FAA written test so it simulates what you're going to do when you go take the test at the FAA testing center. So each time you take it, it pulls from that bank of questions. So each time you're getting some new questions added, you can take that as many times as necessary. And then that written test practice is also available for FAA wings credit. It's just a big relief. The sooner you get that written test done, the better. I've been teaching for 24 years and I prepare people for checkrides. That's what we do here at hogs. We help people get through their training. And so many times that written test is the problem. Oh well, I still got to take the written test, but hey, I want to come up and fly. I want to do my fac. Well, get the written done and call us back. We won't even, we won't even put you on the schedule. We won't even consider you if the FAA written test is not done because we run into it over and over again. And I get it. It's a pain. It's a lot to study and it's time consuming. In order to get a good score on your written test, you got to put some time and effort into it. And there are some things that you're going to study for the written test that you're really not going to use on a day to day basis being a helicopter pilot. But you have to pay your dues and there's a certain amount of things you got to learn to get through the written test. Same as sitting down with the examiner. So it's better just to buckle down, go through it and get it done and get it out of the way so then you can move on to the next step. So we've got four more we're going to cover and four more videos. So go down below. Another resource for newbies. Because this series is geared for new people, anybody can use things from this. But this is Private Pilot 101 helicopter training blueprint. This Is our hangar copy here that we can mark up and mess around with. We built this for beginners. This is built for somebody just starting out that wants tips and things are going to help them get through the private pilot rating. If you try to do it on your own, it can be overwhelming. I failed my first private pilot checkride and I turned that into a positive note by studying really hard to go back and retest in turn. Probably the best thing that ever happened to me because I had to go back and study so hard to go back. And then it kind of changed everything moving forward and I'm sure it had a hand in why we have what we have today with helicopter on ground school. So you can benefit through my mistakes because I've made all of them. I've had all many of the headaches and hardships that people have went through to get a private pilot rating. And that's in the book, that's in our courses My failures and the things that I've been through. I've made tips and talk about those experiences so that you can avoid those things to make your training go more smoothly. So we'll put a link down for this down below and also a link for this that we'll put a link down there where you can check out the first chapter just to get a sample for it. And you can also order that book from the same link and I'll put a PDF down below a link for the PDF for this. 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