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Day #26 Helicopter Training Student Pilots Online Ground School

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Day #26 Helicopter Training Student Pilots Online Ground School
Helicopter Training Student Pilots. One Of The Most Important One's To Date!!!
Hello everybody, Kenny with Fort Wayne Helicopters and welcome to Day 26.  
Nothing super fancy here today. I want to hit three things for student pilots or guys doing their add ons.  When you are first getting into this, and this isn't me trying to get the whole world come and fly with me, these are just some things that you need to know if you are going to go fly and it doesn't matter where you are at.  
The first thing that I want to put is that if you are going to pursue the rating, is that you are going to have to commit yourself to study. You could have your instructor hand feed you all of the ground that you need, but most likely he doesn't have the time to do that or doesn't want to do that. So you are going to have a lot of studying involved, so just make up your mind, that right from the beginning that you are going to study and do what your instructor tells you and what he shows you and that you are going to follow a good course of action. Because that is the biggest part of it, that it takes a lot of self studying and you just have to make up your mind that is what you are going to do. 
The next thing that I want to mention is get your medical in the beginning and get your written test out of the way. So many times students get close to solo and we harp along the way "get your medical, get your written done" and if we don't force you to do it, half they time you won't do it. So make up your mind that you are going to get the test prep book for the written test, study and get that out of the way. The sooner you can put that to sleep and forget that, the better off you are going to be. It is the same thing with the medical. A lot of guys wait and they wait and then end up holding up their solo, which in time, ends up costing you more money if  you don't get that out of the way.  That is number two. 
Number three, this is another one that I have mentioned before and if your instructor is flying you more than an hour in the beginning,  he is stealing your money. Now, I am not talking about cross country, I am not talking about if you have the money and after an hour of training you want to go somewhere and go grab lunch and you are willing to pay for it, that is one thing. But I just had another guy call the other day and he has 44 hours and hasn't soloed and without a lot of background I said " Well, one thing is to make sure that your instructor is not flying you more than an hour at a time in the beginning."  and he said, "Funny that you say that, because my logbook goes 1.6, 1.7, 1.8..." and the guy has never soloed and just done stuff in the pattern. I have been teaching over ten years and the human brain, the average guy or I can say 99% of everybody can only handle about an hour. You can fly longer, but your learning curve is going to go down after that hour. 
The guys that I am flying with now, within about 52 or 53 minutes, we are back on the dolly and shutting down because you want to end on a good note. If you go any longer than that your performance is just going to go downhill. If you are trying to clean up some kind of an issue at the end, it is usually just going to get worse. 
So there are three things, important messages for you guys getting into this and I just wanted to hit that today with some of the things that have come up here in the recent past and I am guilty too of not pushing my students as hard as maybe I should to study and so I am turning over a new leaf today and come down on them a little bit...well not come down on them... but... that is one thing that I need to do is kind of kick my students in the rear just a little bit and really harp on getting the ground done or let's hit the ground hard, lets get the medicals and lets get these other things done and out of the way that need to be done.  
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