YouTube interview-style video (June 16, 2023) featuring Kenny Keller and pro-member student Todd Ketterman preparing for his initial commercial helicopter check ride. The clip covers arrival and tour of the training facility, preflight checks, an in-air evaluation (including flares and landings), and Todd’s positive testimonial about the Helicopter Online Ground School concierge-style three-day prep.
So we got a pro member coming in, getting ready for a check ride. Been a pro member for over a year. We helped him one on one with his private. His name is Todd and we're doing his initial commercial. Todd is super duper organized. I've asked him every single question I can think of, trying to stump him. So when he gets here, it'll be quick. Look over the paperwork because that's where everybody fails. Not having what? Sam. Yeah. Gonna be a fun week. We're getting ready for Todd. He'll be here any minute, so stay tuned. More. Sah. Come here. What's up, man? How are you? You're here. I'm here. The hogs hanger. How was the trip?
It was beautiful.
It was great. Good.
3Am up early.
I wonder what time you got up this morning. Yeah, three. Yeah. Kenny said you were an early bird.
Well, this was early. That's too early, huh? But no, it was good.
This is Lindsay over here behind the camera. Hi. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Cool. How you doing? Good. And Dylan's pointing a camera at us up there out the window of the office. Oh, sweet. So let's give you the tour.
It's funny because I've. I've been watching your videos for. I don't know, you could look at how long I've been. Remember? Or whatever. Yeah. And. And watching and watching and seeing it. So being here, surreal. It's like, oh, my God, this is crazy. And being from Indiana and being back home and coming up through the back roads and I mean, I'm. It just a lot.
That's awesome. And over here we have a bathroom with shower. So not that you'll need it, but.
If we get too and sweaty.
Right. We have work bench for maintenance. Guy comes in, which is nice. He can back up to the door, has his tools. Here's a bench for him to do the work area. And then here, the hog wall paint. Oh, my gosh.
So this is amazing. I mean, you see it on video, but that being here and seeing.
It's amazing, right?
This is awesome. This is so cool.
What are we at 290pictures now? I think. Yeah, for sure.
I mean, this is. This is something else.
So. Wow. So is this time for tear from our sponsor before we eat? Yeah. We'll be right back. Hell yeah.
Live to fly another day.
Helicopterground.com we're back. Thanks to the no go button and Todd's laying his stuff out right now. And once we go through the paperwork, I'll let Todd pre Flight the helicopter so he can have his little one on one time with it, get to know it, maybe find something that I haven't seen so far. And then we're gonna go fly an hour and I'll evaluate where he's at. I pretty much figure in the first 10 or 15 minutes I'm gonna have a good idea whether. Hey, it's gonna be an easy three hours or. Oh. Okay. Todd, we've got some work to do here. But I have pretty good feeling that it's gonna go good. We're class g. We don't have to travel anywhere to go fly somewhere else. We go right from the ramp right into the cabin.
We are.
Good to go. Perfect. And he likes that, right? Okay. Slow, smooth, methodical. Nothing in a hurry.
From warsaw Traffic, helicopter November 181Mike Bravo departing 184.
Verbalize your pre takeoff checks. Okay.
Warning, the constant lights out. Rpm in the green. Plenty of fuel oil.
Imagine your auto flare.
Keep flaring.
Keep flaring.
Keep flaring.
Keep flaring. Keep flaring. Good.
Level it out.
Sam. Sa. Looking nice. That feet in there looking good. Not too damn bad. Let's go do that again. That felt better. That was a ton better.
Yeah, that was a ton better.
Traffic, it's all you. You're doing it.
Looking good.
Looking good. So day two, we're done. Todd's over there putting stuff away. We're getting ready to leave in the morning, as you would expect. I'm tired. Plan on a good checkride tomorrow. But there's a lot to this, even on a short one like this. Through a little three day deal. So Todd, I agreed to do in three days because I had that working relationship with him. We've done ground before.
We did a ton of ground before.
He came up because he's already a pro member from the private. So we're gonna push it in and we're gonna leave it crack ass of don to go to the checkride. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. Peace out.
Perfect.
I mean, that's kind of how I feel. Yeah. And it's the reality of where we're at. Yeah. It's late. I'm tired. Here's what. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. It's been a day.
It's been a day.
And we had the two weeks leading up to it and getting ready and.
Oh yeah, all that whole lot of.
Time spent in this hell. Yeah. Guess what's helicopter way. Yeah. Sam, The brand new commercial pilot. Todd ketterman, all the way from Florida. Longtime Hogs member.
Yeah. No, I mean, this was an incredible experience. I mean, just to be here and work with Kenny and meet the whole crew and Heather and just have this, you know, to go. To go through, to brush up, to get ready for the commercial. It was more than just here, fly, and do this. It was the experience. It was all of Hogs, all of you guys just giving me that time. I mean, it was very concierge in the way in which it was brought together. We had food, we had everything we needed. I got to spend as much time here. We got to brush up on stuff. We were able to just come out and fly. To do anything, I mean, that's unheard of to have that. But the experience of being here, just to calm down, just to be here, it was just incredible. I can honestly say that if you are in any way at a point where, you know, you're ready to go for a cert, you're ready to do, you know, that prep work, and you need that one on one. No pressure. You got the instructor, you got the airport. You got the whole inside. You got couches, you got food, you got drink, you got water, you got coffee. Just got everything you need. The setting is incredible. There's a real. There's a real feeling in this place that. That just kind of gets you in the right headspace. So I can't say enough about what Kenny, Heather, the whole team here has put together to come out and do that. So just. Just, again, if you're at a point where you're ready to have that experience and have something really cool that's just gonna, you know, dust off the edges, the rough edges, and get you ready and pumped up, there's no other place. I guarantee you it's gonna get you ready for that. But thank you, guys. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks, Heather.
Congratulations. Thanks. KE about some bears. Okay, fine. Thank you. He walked away from the hug. Hey. Bye, hog's crew. Bye, todd. So it's funny.
I got Kenny on the way back because as a commercial pilot now, you can get paid to fly, right? But you can'. Go get paid to fly. But there's certain elements that allow you to get paid to fly. So obviously, I'm here and I'm paying for my time. We're flying back, and I say, oh, Kenny, this is the first time I'm actually getting paid to fly. He goes, what are you talking about?
I'm like.
He goes, no, you can't. And I go, well, this is your helicopter, and I'm flying you. And There is a provision in the FAR that says if he's the owner and he's asked me to fly, he pays me, so he pays flight back, you know, And I told him to F off. I sent him an INV Tunnels. Aviation.
No, you don't. Todd's having his yoda time with the lor44.
