I have a friend who is wanting to resume flying after a 10 year hiatus.
Does he have to take the written again? How much dual instruction does
the FAA require before he can go solo?
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Kim Helliwell
19
Apr
Getting back into flying
k…@nntp.cadence.com (Kim Helliwell) wrote:
>I have a friend who is wanting to resume flying after a 10 year hiatus.
>Does he have to take the written again? How much dual instruction does
>the FAA require before he can go solo?
>–
>Kim Helliwell
Kim;
As a minimum your friend will need to get a new flight physical and
take a biennial flight review. One of the local flight instructors in
your area can provide you with a list of aviation medical examiners
for the flight physical.
For the biennial flight review your friend should contact any flight
instructor to arrange for enough dual instruction (typically a few
hours) to knock the rust off his flying skills. Then the flight
instructor signs his log book and your friend is able to fly again.
Best of luck.
Mack McCormick
Kim Helliwell wrote:
> I have a friend who is wanting to resume flying after a 10 year hiatus.
> Does he have to take the written again? How much dual instruction does
> the FAA require before he can go solo?
Are we assuming he has a private license? If so:
No, he does not have to retake the written. As a minimum, he will have to get
a Biennial Flight Review from a CFI. How much dual instruction he will need to
do that would be between himself and the CFI and would depend on how much prior
experience he had and just how rusty he actually is. There are no other
regulatory requirements.
If he only had a student license 10 years ago, then it’s a different game
altogether. I’d have to look it up in the FARs so I’ll let somebody else
answer that one. (Lazy, I guess…)
Walt
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Walt Shiel wrote:
> Kim Helliwell wrote:
> > I have a friend who is wanting to resume flying after a 10 year hiatus.
> > Does he have to take the written again? How much dual instruction does
> > the FAA require before he can go solo?
> Are we assuming he has a private license? If so:
> No, he does not have to retake the written. As a minimum, he will have to get
> a Biennial Flight Review from a CFI. How much dual instruction he will need to
> do that would be between himself and the CFI and would depend on how much prior
> experience he had and just how rusty he actually is. There are no other
> regulatory requirements.
Actually, there are specific requirements. The regs state at least 1 hour
ground instruction and 1 hour flight instruction. The content of the BFR
is solely up to the CFI giving it.
Dave Martin
St. Cloud, MN
> k…@nntp.cadence.com (Kim Helliwell) wrote in article
> I have a friend who is wanting to resume flying after a 10 year hiatus.
> Does he have to take the written again? How much dual instruction does
> the FAA require before he can go solo?
If he DID complete his training and has his private pilot license, he need
only get a third class medical and show up at his local airport for
training, to complete a "BFR" (biennial flight review). After not flying
for so long, he’ll need more hours than simply the hour of oral and hour
of flight time required by the regs. OTOH, once his instructor signs him
off with his BFR he has full priviledges once again.
If he did NOT complete his training, he will have to take the written
again (they’re only good for 2 years). The regs are changed in 10 years,
he’ll need a textbook and/or study guide; I’d recommend the new Rod
Machado book as a textbook, it has good pictures and descriptions of the
new airspace and their associated requirements.
Encourage him to get back into it; once it’s in you blood, it’s a tough
habit to shake, and to be honest he’ll be happier doing it again than
dreaming about it! (I hear from his sort just about every week!)
– Darren
DeLoach Sales & Software