Every 24 calendar months, all licensed pilots must go through a flight review by a certified flight instructor. At Classic Wings, we recommend that you use this requirement to your advantage and work on areas where you feel the need to improve. Review your logbook to identify maneuvers that you have not done in a while. We suggest the following:
- Crosswind Takeoffs and Landings
- Instrument Flying: Unusual Attitude Recoveries, VORs Tracking and Intercepting
- Instrument Flying: Partial Panel (Instrument Failures)
- Stalls, Stall Recoveries
- Slips, No Flap Landings
- Go-Arounds (CCCCC)
- Short Field and Soft Field Takeoffs and Landings
- Emergency Descents (Without overstressing your plane or passengers).
- Engine Failures (On takeoff as well as in flight)
- Emergency Procedures (Radio failure, fires, icing, etc.)
- Short Approaches (The tower guy wants you down quickly)
- Right Traffic (You may not be used to this)
- Straight-In Approach (These are different)
- Spin Recovery
- VOR Tracking and Intercepting
- Airspace Regulations and Communication
- Special Use Airspace
- Temporary Flight Restrictions
- Air Traffic Control and Flight Service Station Services
- Radio Work
- Filing Flight Plans
- Documentation to Fly Legally
- General Regulations
The requirements for obtaining an instrument rating are set by Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) and are stated as follows.
Flight Review (FAR 61.56)
A flight review consists of a minimum of 1 hour of flight training and 1 hour of ground training. The review must include:
- A review of the current general operating and flight rules of part 91.
- A review of those maneuvers and procedures that, at the discretion of the person giving the review, are necessary for the pilot to demonstrate the safe exercise of the privileges of the pilot certificate.