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AC 61-98E Currency Requirements and Guidance for the Flight Review and Instrument Proficiency Check

AC No: 61-98E Version 10/30/24

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?