Kenny Keller (speaker) explains that H.O.G.S. keeps an intentionally limited, "open" schedule for R22 and R44 helicopters, typically running about two checkrides per month. The limited scheduling is deliberate to allow time for required maintenance, monthly ground-school activities, and to avoid common flight-school problems (overbooking, insufficient aircraft, and instructor turnover).
We have a pretty open schedule for both the R22 and R44. Again, because this is, I don't know if you want to say you have to qualify or you're hand picked. We don't just, you know, we don't do three or four or five of these a month. We usually do two. A month is what we like because we have plenty of time to do maintenance in beside in between the checkrides. With either the R22 or the R44, we can do maintenance work on hogs and be doing the things that I need that we need to be doing on, on a monthly basis to keep helicopter online, ground school. So we keep it limited on purpose because again, that's the problem. A lot of flight schools run into. You got too many people, not enough aircraft, not enough time with examiner instructors leaving to go to another jobs. Common, common problems.
