Jerry Ventrella, a 50-year DPE, says recurrent training matters more than anything else. Not just the required flight review every two years, but regular courses and practice. That habit keeps you alive.
I have some advice for you from an examiner of 50 years. We recently met up with Jerry Ventrella, who I've been talking about in videos for the last 14 years. I'm going to give you something, his most important tip for any pilot, new and old. But first I want to tell you about our 60% off Memorial Day sale. It ends, I believe we're rolling this on Monday. So this ends tonight. You can get 60% off our monthly, that's normally 97amonth. You can get that right now for $38.80 a month. With the 60% discount for memorial Day. We have never, ever, ever went that low yearly. Normally 697. You can get that right now for $278.80. We have a lifetime option that's only available on private pilot, that is normally 997. Been selling at 997 for years, that is right now 398.80. And our absolute best deal is on professional pilot. Professional pilot. You get private pilot, instrument pilot, commercial pilot, certified flight instructor. Lifetime never goes away. Normally 2800. It's been set there for at least five years now that that's been at 2800. With this 60% off, that brings you down to 1120for a professional pilot. So for this Memorial Day special as we're in and ending it tonight, 60% off, go to helicopterground.com below, pick the membership you're interested in, enter the code memorial60, click the button and it'll reveal that 60% discount. So back to what I was going to tell you. We met up with Jerry Ventrella and I said, hey, what's a tip? Like, what's your top number one tip after being an examiner for 50 years? And he said, oh my God, there's about five or six of them. He goes, but if I had to pick one for anybody, student, new private pilot, 30 year pilot, he goes across the board. The a number one best tip I could give you with my years of experience is recurrent training. Too many people get a rating and just go fly occasionally and don't go back and review books, don't go attend with webinars or seminars, don't go to advanced training. They just do a flight review every couple years and that's all they ever do. And he said, I think that's the biggest problem in our industry is people not staying up with recurrent training. And he said, I don't care what, what you do, whether it's again, it's webinars, wings, credit you know, taking courses, going to live events, adding additional ratings, going, and just getting a flight review when it's not time for a flight review. Going out with an instructor and going through maneuvers, doing some ground school. So again, from Jerry Ventrella. 50 years, the guy has been given checkrides. And I love talking about Jerry. He did his both. I did my private and commercial both with Jerry, the legendary examiner. He's a freaking encyclopedia of helicopter knowledge. It's unreal. And when we went to see him, I just thought, this is a great opportunity to say, Jerry, what's number one thing you would say after all these years? And he said, recurrent training. So there's a tip for you. Don't get stale, hit the books. I can tell you one of my good friends who's a Czech airman, said in the EMS industry, the problem was showing up. And these guys, EMS pilots haven't studied in a year. And you can tell they started looking through the PoH a day or two before he shows up, and their knowledge was not good a lot of the time. And he said, I should probably be shutting down half the bases in the country because of pilot knowledge. And he said, these guys just don't in general. They sit and watch TV and take naps and do whatever when they could be cracking up a book every month and refreshing emergencies, refreshing airspace and different things. So recurrent training in our industry is a problem. So take that tip and take use of our 60% off by midnight tonight. Code again. Memorial 60. Type it in the coupon box@helopterground.com and you'll get your 60% discount. Peace out.
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