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Helicopter Check Ride Part 1 How I got started

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Channel: Helicopter Online Ground School LLC · 2017 · Education

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  I finally make it to my first helicopter lesson. It is a two and a half hour drive to get there, and my first couple of lessons, the guy was a jerk. I really just kind of wanted to go up for a ride and enjoy myself, and he starts trying to get me to fly it the first day, then yelling at me when I don't understand what he's asking me for. I did not go back for six months after those first two flights. Actually, I think it was closer to a year before I went back.

      When I did finally go back, there is a young man there who says, "That guy you flew with when you were here before, he was a real jerk."

      I said, "You know what? I'm glad you said that because that's what I thought and I didn't want to say it."

     He said, "Let's forget that guy. Let's go out today, and start from scratch, and we'll go from there. You don't even have to fly today if you don't want to."

      "You know what? That would be awesome."

      He said, "I'll just take you out, show you the maneuvers, we'll have some fun, and we'll come back and talk about it." He made it a completely, entirely different experience for me.

      Now, I am motivated. I start finding ways to generate the money, because we all know the money is the hard thing, or it is for most of us. And I do the typical -- I fly, fly, fly. I don't worry about ground school. The instructor I have does not really push ground school. I am just flying, and I am doing really well in the helicopter.

      Eventually I change instructors and go to a different flight school just to try something out. This guy takes me out, we fly together, and he says, "Wow. You are doing really well. You are ready for your Check-Ride. What did you score on your written test?"

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