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How to best Integrate a Biennial Flight Review with Ongoing Instrument Training with my CFII

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I need to complete a Biennial Flight Review for my PPL in about two months. I am also about to start my dual instrument training with a CFII. I currently fly about 4-6 PIC hours a month, usually with a pilot buddy, and we usually switch seats half way though the flight. Therefore I experience an additional few hours as a right seat passenger fiddling with Comms, GPS settings, etc . The point being, I am in the air, and not rusting away on the ground.

I welcome suggestions on how to best integrate the Biennial into my Instrument Dual training. Can bits and pieces of the Biennial be done over several flights?  Basically, I am trying to figure out an approach which would best integrate the Biennial flight experience with my ongoing instrument training.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and suggestions.

 

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  1. Jeff Baum on Nov 03, 2023

    The best way is to have that discussion with your CFII.

    If you complete your Instrument Practical Test before your “due date”, the Practical Test satisfies 61.56. If not, your CFII should be able to come up with a plan for complying with 61.56 during your training. I do this frequently.

    The regulation allows a lot of latitude for the CFI as to what is covered during a Flight Review. A MINIMUM of one hour ground instruction and one hour of flight instruction, to include a review of general operating and flight rules of the part 91 regulations, and those maneuvers and procedures which the CFI feels appropriate to evaluate your ability to exercise the privilege of your certificate(s). Kinda sounds like what you should be receiving during your instrument training. Your CFII might (and I always do) want to see you demonstrate stall avoidance, recognition and recovery, and a simulated engine out situation before they’ll endorse the Flight Review. But that can easily be demonstrated during a lesson.

    A recent instrument student of mine was in the same situation. During one lesson he demonstrated slow flight, stalls and an engine out. The next lesson we did, for fun, slow flight and stalls on instruments. I had no problem signing off the Flight Review, and he nailed his Practical Test a month later.

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  2. Russ Roslewski on Nov 05, 2023

    If I’m actively training you for an Instrument Rating, then it’s highly likely we’ve done everything, or almost everything, that I’d want to see in a Flight Review anyway. So I will likely just sign you off for a FR at the end of one of our normal lessons. We’ve certainly covered sufficient Part 91 material in ground school.

    It’s not anything you need to be concerned about, just mention it to your CFI and it should be little to no additional flying.

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