Getting back in the air

MedicRyan

MedicRyan

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Ok folks, I have a question for all you CFIs out there. It has been just shy of 3 years since I have logged any time, mainly due to finances. I have my commercial instrument SEL and I am finally ready to get current again. Dealing with just a BFR and not an IPC just yet, how many hours do you think it would take to get current again, assuming you are dealing with a competent pilot? And also, what would you do with someone that hasn't flown in 3 years? (cross country, manuevers, a ton of pattern work, etc.) I am just trying to get a sense of how much this is going to cost me to get current again minus an IPC for now.

Also, I am in Charlotte and I have been looking at Rock Hill to do the work so if you guys have any insight on that school or any other schools in the area, or even a specific CFI to work with, it will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ryan
 
All safety of flight items, airspace, and multiple emergency situations. For me, I'd have you take me out and level off in cruise, spend at least a half hour on slow flight clean and dirty, then move on to full break stalls and turning stalls. After that, an engine pull at high altitude, an engine pull at low altitude, some sort of system failure like instrumentation/radios. Then it's standard short field takeoffs and landings, emergency in the pattern landings, and no flappers. Both of these to be done at a controlled and uncontrolled field. (It's easy here, uncontrolled field 7 miles away.)

On the ground I'd expect at least 2 hours of training. Weight and Balance, regs, situational flying on system failures, lost comms, lost procedures, en route weather. That should do it for me.

If you are good at the above, shouldn't take 3 hours or so but if you're rusty, you're looking at 8. The how many hour question is so loaded it's not even funny. It's all on a case by case basis. We had a guy come in with 50 hours in the arrow and said he needed a finish up for his commercial. First flight he set the prop and throttles backwards twice...20 hours to get him through.
 
Goldmember said:
All safety of flight items, airspace, and multiple emergency situations. For me, I'd have you take me out and level off in cruise, spend at least a half hour on slow flight clean and dirty, then move on to full break stalls and turning stalls. After that, an engine pull at high altitude, an engine pull at low altitude, some sort of system failure like instrumentation/radios. Then it's standard short field takeoffs and landings, emergency in the pattern landings, and no flappers. Both of these to be done at a controlled and uncontrolled field. (It's easy here, uncontrolled field 7 miles away.)

On the ground I'd expect at least 2 hours of training. Weight and Balance, regs, situational flying on system failures, lost comms, lost procedures, en route weather. That should do it for me.

If you are good at the above, shouldn't take 3 hours or so but if you're rusty, you're looking at 8. The how many hour question is so loaded it's not even funny. It's all on a case by case basis. We had a guy come in with 50 hours in the arrow and said he needed a finish up for his commercial. First flight he set the prop and throttles backwards twice...20 hours to get him through.
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DAMN thats a lot of slow flight!!
 
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