"using Foreflight driving in truck listening to Live ATC"

All right, this says I'm a lot. This says I'm live. Let me know I can actually see the chat box. If you're here, let me know you're here. So I'm going to get started and we'll see what happens. This is looking goofy. All right, says I'm live. This is like the worst. I just went live for half an hour and whoops, man, everything's going to Jesus. All right, I don't see anybody here. It says live, but I don't know if anybody's here or not. Ah, there's a viewer. Let me know. Somebody type something in chat. I'm gonna roll with this. I just went live for half an hour and got done and only thing that came out is 15 seconds. I have no idea what happened. It says excellent connection. I see seven current viewers. Somebody type in. So here we're going to do this again. This was really good. It was half an hour long and I'm not going to be able to do it again. The days went on. There's Heather there. Heather's here now. Thanks, Heather. Because you weren't here. I went live for half an hour. Thought everything was running. Didn't know till I was done. I wasn't here. Okay, so let's back up the story. We're doing it again. I'm Kenny Keller, creator. Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Online Ground School. And I'm getting tired and I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about what the title of the video is, if the title even came out right since I had to set up another live. We're gonna get to that in a minute. Had a good one on one session with our pro pilot member where I'm doing six one on ones with him. Today was number five. He's doing awesome. Getting ready to solo and what I want to share with you before and if I can do this right, Heather, text me if anything goes wrong while I'm operating cameras and stuff. Lol. I couldn't see you. Can you see me now, Heather? Make sure it's going good. I'm going to show you what I've been working on today other than trying to go live unsuccessfully. Let me get it on the screen if I can. So what I'm doing is rolling over to a presentation that I'm editing today. So what you're going to see here is Brian Rutledge has built us a brand new video on carb ice and carb heat. This is a cause of fatal accidents. Brian shot a brand new video and check this out, we've got some animations which is really cool. So our illustrator has been working on this for like longer than I want to say. Since he went home. We had to get him set up to work remotely and he sent me a new file. Brian made a brand new video because we've saved a lot of Dave Redmond's videos. But this was one that we had to make some changes. From the time that video was made till now, it needed updated with some stuff. So Brian has built us a brand new 8 minute presentation on carb ice, carb heat, what goes on inside the carburetor. So I am editing now Brian's video to Ken, our illustrator, his illustrations and I'll move forward here just a little bit. Again, this was just a little test I showed Brian. But you know, we go in and explain the air fuel mixture, the Venturi and Bernoulli principle and what goes on in the Venturi. And then we show the air fuel coming out of the fuel nozzle and we show the butterfly valve and the ice build up kind of slick. So I'm editing now. So you're seeing the ref version, but you can see here how we did the animation to show you all the elements. The carb heat, the venturi, the airflow, the fuel coming in and we even have the ice ends up being drawn in there and we even have a little animation. When it's done, you'll see that the carb heat gets turned on, heats this air and, and blows away the ice in the animation. So I'm excited about that. So I wanted to share that with you. What I'm doing today, I'm tired because a lot going on. We were supposed to go after the H269 today. And as I was live half an hour ago, even though I thought I was live and I wasn't and I talked to nobody for half an hour because I thought I was live and I wasn't. While I was thinking I was live, Jason just sent me a picture and here it is. I know it's on the phone so probably can't see it. Well, H269, he is in Chicago now. He'll be flying this back in the morning. This H269 is going to Frankfort, Indiana and Jason will be flying that this weekend with his customers, his students. And his information is ventureheli.com so venture common spelling ventureheli.com we were going to go and he was going to bring this back and we were going with a trailer and a truck we went to do it last week and last minute fell through. Yesterday we were all set, ready to go truck trailer. People around me started getting sick. So I'm like, well, you know what, let's get everybody healthy because last thing you want to do is be spreading between each other. Ultimately, that's why I'm here today by myself. So anyway, there is the helicopter. He will have it home tomorrow and his schedule is almost booked full this weekend. He's got students waiting in line and he's already pawning, not pawning off, but he's already asked me to do one CFI that wanted to fly up this way because Hauser wants to get involved. And. And he said, hey, will you do a CFI up there when you get the other H269 to your place? I'm like, absolutely. So I'll be sending Jason business, he'll be sending me business, and we'll be doing stuff together. So the second H269 is coming here and we will be his maintenance base. Jason's got a full schedule of students going to be flying. We'll have the spare helicopter here. I'll be flying it with HOGS members. We'll be using it to make some new videos. Go out and fly. I'm going to do at least 10 hours. The first month of me just going out and flying and getting comfortable in the H269 and making some fresh video. So it's going to be fun. And then we'll have the whole parts supply here. We've got some stuff already. The beauty is this one here always can be like tip top shape. And he, by helicopter, he might be an hour away, 45 minutes away. If he has something major he needs done, he can fly up, drop it off, pick up the other one and fly back. Our maintenance guy lives close by. So we've got the parts, we've got the facility. So aircraft number two will always be ready to go and I'll be flying it. And if Jason needs it, he can fly up, drop it off, pick up the good one or the one that's ready to go and take it back. So exciting stuff. And I will be flying with HOGS members. So the title of the video today, and I'm actually just going to take a second so I can peek over at chat and make sure. Okay. Looks like people are still talking. Good. All right. Heather didn't text me to tell me anything bad happened. So let me see if I can get through this without falling asleep. I'm tired, man. I'M doing that editing that we did, the one on one. You know, it's stressful when you get all ready to go and then your plan changes and back and forth, but still so much to be excited about. We're now planning on Thursday or Friday next week to go bring aircraft number two back. I might have to go fly it this weekend with Jason. Maybe he can work me in over the weekend. I could just buzz down there and fly with him down in central Indiana. So the title of video today, whatever, I made it for flight. Driving in your truck, listening to Live atc. This was the first thing I wrote down today. We talked about, and I thought this was really cool. And let's make a disclaimer. Yes, of course, if you try anything like this, a number one drive the car, a number one drive the truck, a number one fly the aircraft, whatever you're doing, you got to be looking outside and paying attention. But what he did, and nobody's ever told me they've done this, and I thought it was, like, brilliant. He said he's been aggravating his wife in the car or in the truck? Actually. He said, yeah, I've been driving the truck, and I'm listening to Live ATC in my ear so that I have the distraction of driving, looking outside, listening to atc, trying to decipher what's going on, which he's been practicing, and it's helped him a lot, right? And he said, I've been mounting my iPad with foreflight in the truck, and he's got it in a place where he can reach it, and he's using. He's keeping his right hand on the steering wheel and using his left hand to, like, you know, reach up, hit the nearest button, reach up, hit the airport button. You know, monkeying with foreflight as he's driving. And I thought, you know what? Again, the disclaimer, of course you got to be careful driving, but we know people are driving down, doing down the road doing worse things like texting on their phone. That's a lot worse. If you're looking down here, at least if you're driving and you're keeping hand steering wheel and you're just taking your hand away as you're looking outside, you can look over, bleep, hit the button, look back over. Oh, yeah, there's my course nearest. Boom. Hit the nearest button. And he was talking about how much it's helped him and how much it annoys his wife that he's been driving in the truck, using for flight to drive cross country and messing with it. And also listen to live atc, so be careful, do what you want. But I thought it was a brilliant idea. And I thought nobody's ever told me that they've used it in that aspect. And I thought, what a simple thing, you know, what a great way to hone your skills. So I thought it was great. I thought it was awesome. And then we talked about all the tech stuff today and try to make it quick. You know, in the student training environment, we really want to try to keep you focusing on, you know, takeoffs, landings, the pattern, whatever GPS is installed you should be using. If you have to use an iPad or something for foreflight or cross country, that's fine. But really, as a student, we don't want you monkeying with too many electronic devices. With that being said, many of you will get your private. And then there's all these toys and things that you want to play with. And not toys, but electronic devices you want to be using in the cockpit. And he was talking about external batteries for your. Things that you use. Mounts. What types of mounts? For iPads, GoPros, suction cups. We talked a lot about the tech geeky stuff, and I thought, you know what I said, do we have an audio problem? Man, this is not my day. Heather, what's going on? My audio is fine on earbuds. Is it just me or is he hard to hear? Hmm, I don't know. It shows that. I mean, I got the good mic, I got the good signal. What the heck? All right, I'm going to take a second here. This is going to be another video I'm going to delete when I'm done because it's gross. Anybody there or am I gone? I'm gone, ain't I? That's fine. Okay, good. So where was I? So anyway, we got talking about, you know what? Maybe we'll put together a free course, something that we could give people that have some of the techie geeky stuff covering some of the electronic stuff that a person's going to use once they're a private pilot or you might even be using as a student. Again, I really want to limit. When I'm training somebody, a new student, I don't want them having too much time monkeying with electronic gadgets other than what's necessary. However, I think it is important that you know, whatever you're going to have in the cockpit with you, you know how to. You need to know how to use it. Know how to use it safely. Okay? And the point that came across today when we were talking about this, I said, well, you know, this is a good point to talk about because whatever you have in the cockpit, you need to make sure you understand how to use it. And I'll use an example of when I did my instrument rating back before iPads and iPhones, you know, were the thing before they were even around. I did my instrument check ride in a helicopter that I didn't have a lot of time in and I wasn't super familiar with the GPS and the examiner that I've worked with all these years. Even though we get along great, he kind of spanked me that day because I knew just enough to get by on the instrument ride. And then he asked me some other stuff and I wasn't sure how to do it and I was kind of plunking around and, and he kind of went, anything you have on this aircraft, make sure you know it and make sure you know how to use all the features and all the gadgets. And that's a good point, right? It's like whether you're using the paperback copy of the FAR aim, you need to know how to use it. If you're using the FAR AIM on your phone, know how to navigate through it. Anything that we're using, you need to be proficient with it. So anything you bring to the checkride, anything you install in the cockpit, anything they take, you take with you, don't do it in a half assed manner. You know, make sure you understand and know how to use anything that's in the cockpit. And also make sure that your mounting is good. Right. Being careful of placement of all these items. I know now, years later, I'm pretty comfortable getting the aircraft and mounting, you know, cameras and talking through a mic and doing stuff. But that's, you know, after years of practice and flying a long time, I would caution you when you're new to not get too carried away, but anything you're going to take in there, make sure you know how to use it, make sure it's mouse securely and just take the time to make sure you're being safe with anything that you're using. So I told our member, I'm like, you know, maybe we'll put together a free course on just some tech gadgets, right? Something that anybody could look at. And, and I said, well, you know what, you know, Brian Rutledge, our operations manager. Brian is really up on the tech stuff. I'm not as much up on tech stuff because when I do fly, I like to just go out and beat around the pattern and do emergencies and prep for check rides and takeoff and landing. Rarely do I travel anywhere in a helicopter. So do I really need foreflight out here in the pattern, going around beating the pattern up? No, I don't. And since I've been heavy into ground school all these years, you know, I've done some cross country stuff, but I'm not in an environment where I need a lot of techie stuff. Brian, however, get this, you may not know this. You know, many of you know he's retired sheriff's deputy, flew for the aviation unit for years. But Brian's up on the techie stuff because flying, of course, in law enforcement, Brian's up on all the latest tech. You know, they got cameras and they have all the electronic gadgetry and night vision and all this stuff. Brian is still a reserve deputy even though he retired. Brian does go in and fly for the sheriff's department and they'll call him in when, when certain things happen, they need extra help, you know, somebody's sick, whatever. So even though Brian is with us full time as our operations manager, Brian is still flying for the one of the largest aviation units in California. Actively out there with all the geeky stuff. Right? And that's where a lot of some of the new presentations Brian has done inside hogs, he's done with the iPad, and he's used the iPad to demonstrate things like foreflight and some other things. So, you know, Brian brings that more techie aspect of things to HOGS because that's more of just something that he's more versed in. Right. And I'm okay with that. Why? We complement each other. I'm the guy beating around the pattern and he's good with the kind of techie stuff, so. And I want to put an offer if anybody wants to help us with a certain video on some techie stuff. We've been using some HOGS members to actually help us. Brian's a HOGS member, you know, Taz is a HOGS member, Chris Hauser, they're all HOGS members, you know, many of those, Sarah Green and others that have helped us. But right now we have HOGS member Mike Michael Wirth. Just so you know, he went through all the CFI tests for the CFI course we have. There are three written tests for practice. One's an foi, two cfi, and these are available for wings credit. Michael went in and because he just went through all that testing, he went through and reviewed our written test practice and made sure all the questions were Update for certified flight instructor foi. And the way we had it before, it was set to where as many times you would take the test, it would show up in the same order. So he set it to randomize so that now you have updated questions in the CFI course and now it's randomized so you won't get the same test over and over again. Right. Which is a good thing because you want to keep that knowledge fresh. So they're going to put it to you in a different order. He just finished that last week. This week he started on Private Pilot. So those of you that are Private Pilot members or will be coming in soon to Private Pilot, we are rebuilding. There's 100 questions I believe in Private Pilot. He's going to go through every single question, see what can stay, see what needs to be added or changed. Because we built those written tests probably 20, 18, maybe around that time. So Michael's going in and checking to make sure everything is recurrent with the current FAA testing. So that tree is done with Private. We're going to do the commercial ones and then we'll get to the instruments as well. So we are bringing HUGS members in for certain skills. Right. And that's how you build a team, is by finding people who's good at what. Right. And he's done a good job for us on the updating the written tests. So give me your ideas either in chat or if you catch this video afterwards. Leave us your ideas on what kind of tech techy stuff you'd like to see some videos on. Maybe a course with maybe, I don't know, 10 or 15 videos in it. Some stuff that we can put together and make it kind of a cool little course. Tell us what you'd like to see either in the chat or in the box down below. Love to hear it. He brought up helmets today and we didn't dive deep into it because he said, well, you should do a video on helmets. And I go, well, I've done a video on helmets. That's from the Coffee with Kenny series. So that would have been way back at the other airport I was at before I moved here. So that video is probably now about three years old. And all I'll say about today about helmets is I think it's something that you should probably research. Everybody's going to have their own, you know, there's pros and cons, but of course common sense would tell you there are reasons why a helmet would be much safer. So I think helmets are something that if you're interested in a helmet. That is something you should definitely do some research on and talk to people and, you know, do your research and find out what's right for you. I'm not going to say you have to have one. I'm not going to tell you not to wear one. I think that's for individuals to, you know, dig in and find out what's right for them. But I'm sure, you know, obviously there's a safety aspect to wearing a helmet over a headset. Man, I'm tired. I'm going to get to just a couple last things here because I went live for half an hour and thought everybody was here and nobody was there. So anyway, we went into. I want to tell you this, that's another thing that came out of good today. Our member, he's doing great, getting ready to solo. Did I tell you this in the first place live or the second? Live. He's waiting for the aircraft to come back up. His instructor said, come back out of maintenance. He said, look, we're not even gonna fly anymore, you know, because he had a backup aircraft. He's like, let's just wait till the other one that you're gonna solo in is up because you're good. We are. You are ready to solo. And so we are working one on one in our one on one sessions. We are working through my notebook and I went back and I did some review today with him and I hit some of the things that we hit last week and some of them were, last week they maybe weren't real smooth. Some of them he went boom, boom, boom. I'm like, good, great. Okay. So he's doing really, really well. What I want to tell you is he is a private pilot doing an add on. So I, he did good, but I stuck him in some of those things. Like, oh, we got on night and he got through it and he knew it needed to be there, but it wasn't real fluent. Like, you know, what is the definition of night? It's the end of evening civil twilight up to the beginning of morning civil twilight as published in the American Air Almanac. You know, he got there, but it wasn't real super smooth. And anyway, I said, you know, so let's go back, you know, go back and refresh all this stuff because every check ride, private commercial CFI examiners start out and I can't harp on this enough. What do you have to have on you? What do you have to have in the aircraft? What do you got to do to be current at night? If you're current in this style of aircraft. Are you current in that style of aircraft? You know these things. There's a lot to that when you start that check right off. And some other VFR stuff. I kind of got him on and I just said, just remember, even though you're doing an add on, go back and review all the private pilot stuff. And the other thing that Big came out of today is this member has proven that he's applying himself. He is, he is studying, he's applying himself. And what I found today was I'm still, I'm still, I'm still getting him to go down a rabbit hole. Okay? Like I asked him a simple question and it was something about low G. And he went, oh, you know, well, semi rigid. I'm like, yeah, semi rigid. He's like. When he started talking about how it's like this, you know, and I'm like, what do you call that? And I was trying to get under slung out of him and he's like, you know, he knew what he's talking about and then he somehow. Blade flapping, a core else or something came out. I'm like, well, tell me about that. Blade flapping, what's that? And then he's like, oh, well, you know, Coriolis effect. Oh, what's that? Right? And we just sat back and laughed and he went down the rabbit hole of bringing up other stuff. And so my theme with him right now, now that he's ready to start soloing, start building his time, we want him to ace the checkride. And what I'm trying to tell him is just keep studying and get this stuff to where it's smooth. It's easy to know it when you're sitting at home studying, watching a video, reading a book, going through your notes, whatever you're doing. It's one thing when somebody's on the other side of the table asking you questions or a guy's halfway across the country over zoom asking you questions, all of a sudden your brain just goes, yeah, yeah, I know that. And he's got the knowledge, but that's why you have to study and then study some more and study some more and study some more. Because we learn through repetition. The more you go through it, the better you're going to remember it. And this morning I was drinking coffee, thinking about when I was at the police academy and firearms instructor school and them talking about how as a society and as people, we learn and we forget and then we have to learn it again and then we forget and then we learn again and we forget. That's how the world works. If you're not continually opening up a book, studying, doing something, your knowledge kind of slips away. So it's about staying fresh. It's about reviewing basics. It's really about going back, you know, and just study, study, study. If you want to ace the checkride, if you really want to go and you really want to do it and you want to walk out. So getting him really fluid and trying to get him to go, okay, yeah, don't go down that rabbit hole. When you answer the examiner when he asked you a question and he says, what's retreating blade stall? Oh, yeah, it's when the retreating blade exceeds critical algal attack. Because this blade's going up and this blade's going down. And due to gyroscope, don't do that. What is retreating blade stall? It's when the retreating blade extends critical angle of attack, zip. And then sit there. And then if he wants more, he might say, really? So what might you notice? How would you know this was happening to you? Or what are some conditions, you know, let that examiner dig. And that's what I'm trying the point I'm trying to get across to our members. Just, he's an engineer and he wants to tell you everything and he wants to prove his knowledge. And I remember my instructor going, I remember doing that, getting ready. And he goes, kenny, when I was going to retest, not my first time, but when I was going to retest in my private pilot, I knew my stuff so well. And Brad, my instructor's like, dude, I know what you're doing. And I'm telling this member today the same thing is what Brad told me. He goes, I know you want to prove your knowledge. His name was Jerry, Jerry Ventrella. He goes, I know you want to prove to Jerry that you know your stuff, but don't only answer the simple part of the question as short and sweet as possible, because no matter how good your knowledge is, it's not going to compare to that guy on the other side that's been flying him since Vietnam. And that's right, you know, that's exactly right. So that guy already knows it. He just wants to make sure you have what you need to pass the test and keep yourself safe. That's all he is looking for. So what else? So that's really kind of it. I'm gonna get off here because this has been a long day and I'm getting tired on that first one. Wore me out. I Want to reiterate helicopterground.com/ Professional pilot member. Professional pilot. Unlimited packages. You can talk to Daniel. There's a link down below. Heather can talk to you about it too. That's a big package and that's not for everybody, but we have a small interview process and that's unlimited. I do six one on one on ones with you and you better come here and do a flight with us in the H269 as soon as it's up and running. And then Heather has some specials too that are not advertised on our site right now. We got past Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday. I don't know if it wore you out, but it wore me out. And I didn't email the hell out of everybody over that time because I'm just like, I'm getting so many damn emails that this is crazy. So we put the homepage back to the basic courses. Heather's got some other options. A 24 month Profilot option and a 12 month Private Pilot option. The numbers down below, 574-767-1797. If you shoot Heather a text or you shoot her an email or you call her at that number, she can throw some specials at you that are not on our site. But we want you to interact with us because we want to hear your feedback. And oh yeah, I heard today from the video yesterday. Did you watch it? If you didn't go back and watch it. If you're worried about fouling your check, right? On slopes. This member who failed, he did great in oral, passed the oral part, got through the maneuvers, but he failed on the slopes. I gave him some tips yesterday when I went live, I sent him the link and he answered today and he went, kenny, I owe you five bucks. He said, you were right about what? I bet five bucks on, he said when you said it in the video, I went, yep, my eyeballs have been down at the ground right in front of the helicopter. He goes, so you're right, I owe you five bucks for that. Or somebody owes you five bucks. He goes, and then the air cushion. He said, you know, I remember seeing that video in private pilot. But it's been a while since I watched that video. And by you bringing it up yesterday, I went, oh yeah, I forgot about the air cushion. He said, so you helped me tremendously by just going, hey, where are your eyes? I said, yesterday, five bucks. As you're looking at the ground. He goes, you're right, I'm not looking outside like I should be. I forgot about the air cushion. And you know, those couple little things along with the breathing and just taking a step back and reviewing the what's going on there and breathing in and out. He's excited and wants to get finished up and he sent me a wonderful email. It was awesome. I loved it because sometimes I do videos for people and then I never even get a thank you and it's like oh well I'm glad. I went through all that work to make you a video and you never even responded back so this member did and that was awesome. So I want to share that with you and I just wanted to go live today to keep you updated. We've been doing this every Thursday so I wanted to keep you up with the progress but there's a lot going on and I'm tired and I'm gonna roll out of here so peace out. Helicopter ground up com below text or call Heather 574-767-1797 Peace out.