Currency Check

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jetman

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I didnt fly for one year and the flying club requires a 2 hrs currency check for the C -172 rental.In your opinion how this 2 hrs should be spent to get my money's worth? [500 hrs PIC SEL] Thanks a lot.
 
What type of flying are you wanting to do with the plane after the checkout? What type of flying have you done for the 500 hours you have now?

Knowing more about your past and future would help me recommend a good checkout flight.
 
jetman said:
I didnt fly for one year
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then yes, as an employee I would want to check you out in an airplane to make sure you are safe. yesterday i flew with a woman who has been flying since 1981 and has about 2000 hours. she needed about 4 hours to be brought up to speed even though she flys about 1 hour a month.


and the flying club requires a 2 hrs currency check for the C -172 rental.In your opinion how this 2 hrs should be spent to get my money's worth? [500 hrs PIC SEL] Thanks a lot.
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i want to see flight at slow speed various configurations, take offs and landings, weight & balance, stall recovery, hood time / unusual attitude recovery.

i'm looking at safety in a checkout, not necessarily proceedure
 
Thanks for replies.Got PPL a long time ago ,flying has been irregular with many long non flying periods in between [ 70 hrs XC ,40 night,40 hood/sim C-150,172,172RG Aeronca/Citabria] i done this checkouts before with different instructors and different ways. I was looking for some ideas on how to get the max benefit in minimum time.
 
For pilots who don't fly often, I'd focus on very "real world" scenarios. Maybe do one or two stalls, steep turns, etc. but the majority of your time should be spent on things that will actually happen to you:

Short field takeoffs and landings
Soft field takeoffs and landings
Crosswind takeoffs and landings
Sim. engine failure in the practice area
Sim. engine failure shortly after takeoff
Towered airport/controlled airspace operations
Radio communications
How to brief passengers adequately
Weight and balance calculations
Fuel burn calculations
Whatever else relates to the flying you'll do after your checkout

Will it be for giving rides to your friends? Talk to your instructor about how to deal with airsick passengers.

Will it be for long cross country flights? Review procedures for if you're lost, if the weather turns bad midway through a trip, etc.

Etc., etc....
 
jrh said:
For pilots who don't fly often, I'd focus on very "real world" scenarios. Maybe do one or two stalls, steep turns, etc. but the majority of your time should be spent on things that will actually happen to you:
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The AC that deals with flight reviews indicates that they should be tailored to the pilot. This is an example of that. Even with pilots who fly a lot, you may find areas that need work. That pilot with tens of thousands of hours who can fly rings around you may well have some trouble with towered airport communications or some other weakness that can benefit from some of that training that takes place in a FR.

For jetman, you are probably the best judge of the things you are less comfortable with. Those are the things you want to work on to get the most bang from that 2 hours.
 
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