With excerpts from Michael Hayes’ popular Oral Exam Guide Series, this Guide to the Flight Review is an excellent question-and-answer study tool for applicants and instructors alike. Use when you’re gearing up for a Flight Review, as well as for a general refresher.
This eighth edition reflects the latest procedural and regulatory changes mandated by the FAA including AC 61-98B and AC 61-91J Wings Pilot Proficiency Program. Other additions include new information on special flight permits, ADs, EFBs, airport markings and signs, runway incursion avoidance, risk management, and an updated checklist to reflect the current PTS.
This guide informs both pilots and flight instructors about the exam, and lists questions with succinct answers that will help them pass their flight review. It is also useful for FAA-designated examiners for keeping track of how to conduct a flight review, and the steps and requirements laid out by the FAA.
The flight review must include 1 hour of ground instruction as well as 1 hour of flight instruction. The information provided in this book may be used by instructors to fulfill these requirements.
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Part Number ASAOEGBFR8PD
ISBN 9781619549265
Make sure you have the most current information for your Flight Review, including the latest FAR/AIM Update.
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WINGS—Pilot Proficiency Program (AC 61-91J.pdf), effective 02/16/11
Currency Requirements and Guidance for the Flight Review and Instrument Proficiency Check (AC_61-98D.pdf), effective 04/30/18
Features of the Guide to the Flight Review include:
- Information for Pilots wanting to fly without a medical certificate using Basic Med.
- Information pertinent to today’s operational environment and areas of emphasis such as human factors, risk management, FAA certification standards, loss-of-control, and upset recovery, ADS-B, Remote pilots and drones.
- The FAA’s “Conducting an Effective Flight Review” guidance document provides specific recommendations for the ground review, flight activities, post-flight debriefing, and pilot improvement plans.
- The FAA’s online flight review course is referenced throughout, encouraging both applicants and instructors to take advantage of this excellent (and free) resource.
- Questions-and-answer format for the ground review portion of the flight review is an excellent refresher for the information all pilots need to know.
- Sample written quiz, which can be used to meet the ground training requirement.
- For instructors, helpful recommendations on how to conduct the flight review, with a synopsis of practical test standards for the maneuvers at both the Private and Commercial level.
- Appendix has reprints of the flight review regulation (14 CFR 61.56) and other helpful and important FAA resources, including a comprehensive checklist that helps both applicants and instructors ensure they not only meet legal standards but gain useful insight in following through with the flight review requirement.