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I received my commercial multi add last November after not flying for two and half years because I had lost my medical.

Does receiving my multi add, constitutes me getting a BFR?

 

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  1. EAD on Mar 04, 2024

    What does 61.56 say?

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  2. Russ Roslewski on Mar 05, 2024

    I’ll add to EAD’s response (without giving the answer away, because I also believe that it’s best if you read 61.56 to get the answer yourself.)

    If your flight review was expired prior to taking any checkride, then the only way to take the checkride is if the DPE agreed to act as PIC, which the FAA recommends against. This is because you are usually required to act as PIC during a checkride, and to act as PIC you must have a current flight review.

    Now, if the applicant isn’t adding a category or class rating, this is pretty simple. Certainly during the training we have accomplished well more than the requirements for a FR, so I just sign them off for a FR at some convenient time.

    But when adding a category or class, well you can’t sign off a flight review in a category or class that the person isn’t already rated for. So in that case while doing multi training, I have on a couple of occasions flown with them in a single to sign off the FR.

    All of this is to say that your CFI, DPE and you should have had a conversation about all this during your training – I don’t mean discussing the rules about FRs, but rather how you’re going to handle the checkride. Because without a flight review, the DPE would had to have acted as PIC, and that would have required some discussion. During that discussion I would have expected the answer to your question to have come up.

    The fact that it didn’t makes me wonder if the CFI and DPE missed all this (and if so, how?)

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