Chapter Appendix D
Sample Flight Instructor's Flight Review Checklist
Appendix D. Sample Flight Instructor’s Flight Review Checklist
Step 1: Preflight Review Actions
- Scheduling
- Set expectations of pilot under review
- Pilot’s aeronautical history
- Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 91 review assignment
- Cross-country flight plan assignment
Step 2: Ground Discussion
- FAA Aviation English Language Standard (AELS) requirements
- Regulatory review
- Cross-country flight plan review
- Risk management (RM) and personal minimums
Step 3: Conducting the Flight
- Physical aircraft (basic skills)
- Takeoffs and stabilized approaches to landings
- Slow flight
- Stalls and recovery/spin recognition and avoidance
- Recovery from unusual attitudes
- Simulated loss of power/engine
- Operating the aircraft by sole reference to instruments under actual or simulated conditions
- Aeronautical decision-making (ADM)
- Automation system failures
Step 4: Postflight Discussion
- Replay, reflect, reconstruct, redirect
- Questions
Step 5: Aeronautical Health Maintenance and Improvement Plan
- Personal minimums worksheet
- Personal proficiency practice plan
- Training plan (if desired)
- Resources list
Sample Pilot’s Aeronautical History for Flight Review
Pilot:
Flight Instructor:
Address:
Phone(s):
Email:
Pilot Certificate(s):
Private
Commercial
Airline Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Instructor
Ratings (not necessarily inclusive):
Instrument
Airplane Single-Engine Land (ASEL)
Multiengine Land (MEL)
Lighter than Air (LTA)
Rotorcraft
(Other)
Experience (pilot):
Total time
Last 6 months
Average hours/month
Time since last flight review
Since last instrument proficiency check (IPC)
Experience (aircraft):
Aircraft type(s) you fly
Aircraft used most often
Total time
Last 6 months
Average hours/month
Experience (flight environment):
Since your last flight review, approximately how many hours have you logged in:
Day visual flight rules (VFR)
Day instrument flight rules (IFR)
Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
Night VFR
Night IFR
Mountainous/Overwater
Towered
Nontowered
Type of Flying (external factors):
What percentage of your flying is for:
Pleasure
Business
Local
Cross-country
Personal Skills Assessment:
Strengths as a pilot?
Areas for improvement?
Aviation goals?