How to Conduct a Flight Review
Added 2020-05-01 01:58:22 +0000 UTCThis video will walk you through your responsibility as a CFI when you are setting up for, conducting, and then staying in contact with your clients after the review is complete.
The Flight Review is probably one of the most misunderstood and misused tools in the aviation industry. It is commonly mislabeled as the Biennial Flight Review, or even worse, the Bi-Annual Flight Review (meaning twice a year), due to a regulation change dating back to 1993 where the FAA attempted to rewrite the currency and proficiency requirements for pilots.
In the 1993 change, the FAA rewrote the regulations overnight to reflect a change that mandated a flight review every 12 calendar months for any pilot who did not fly more than 200 hours in that time period. If the pilot did fly over the 200 hours, then they only had to perform the review every 24 calendar months. Of course, this struck a nerve in the industry with all of the acronym organizations who stood their ground and claimed: "how dare you try to make our members stay proficient". Okay, maybe it wasn't quoted exactly like that, but that was the main point to the objections of the 200-hour rule. The FAA rewrote the regulations into the now current version which can be found in 14 CFR Part 61.56.
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