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Yes and the lift created by the fuselage has to almost be equal to the aircraft weight with thrust contributing as well. Also the rudder will in most cases create lift like a full pitch up position to keep the aoa of the fuselage pitched enough.????

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The model does have more thrust than weight, but that is not the key. The airplane has an 850mm wing span and is 1050mm long, but only weighs about 45 grams flying weight. Due to the light weight and a good balance between vertical and horizontal surface area, and a neutral C/G it will pretty much stay what ever direction it is pointed. If you roll into a 45° bank and add up elevator it does not make a normal turn. It will try to do a loop laying on a 45° axis.

 

The model is similar to this.

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Not necessarily.  Normally, a Flight Review will consist of steep turns, slow flight, stalls and recovery, and a few take-off's and landings. That's about all you can do in one hour and enough for the CFI to determine if you can safely fly the airplane. A Commercial pilot Flight Review will rarely include all the Commercial maneuvers.  The purpose of a Flight Review is to make sure you are a competent and safe pilot, not another Commercial flight test.

 

Gbigs, how many Private or Commercial Pilot Flight Reviews have you given or received?

 

Now, you will also need LSA transition training.  That could take as little as a couple hours or as much as 5 hours and would probably preceed and/or include your Flight Review.  By the time you feel comfortable with your LSA transition, you will have no problem with your Flight Review.

 

A flight review is not a standardized process like a PTS based checkride (the review is not done by a DPE).  What it involves is up to the CFI conducting the review.  In fact, no one can flunk a flight review, BUT the CFI can refuse to sign-off on your ride if he/she doesn't like something you did or didn't do (without prejudice).  At that point you either get someone else to go up with, and/or you make the correction (if the CFI chooses to tell you why they wont sign-off) and get the review done.

 

And if you go up with a CFI and they don't sign you off there is no obligation by the CFI to report your alleged issues to the FAA.  The FAA simply leaves it up to the CFI community to either sign-off or not.  And of course you are not legal to fly until you get a sign-off.

 

The FAA does say they intend the flight review to make sure the pilot is current on changes in the FAR and to determine that flying skills that may be rusty are still good to go.  What you do on the ground and what you do in the air is up to the CFI.  Some choose to pick maneuvers from the PTS, others like to have you do something you may rarely do, others still may have you do very little except takeoff, fly back in the pattern and land again a few times.   It is not a training exercise necessarily and you may not get instruction...just demonstrating skill and knowledge.   What you do and how well you do it to get signed-off is a subjective determination made by the CFI.

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Yoo Hoo, a flight review is actualiy dual and should be logged in the dual column of the log book.

 

FAR §61.56(a) states that a flight review consists of a minimum of one hour of flight training and one hour of ground training. ... 

 

Flight training to me means DUAL.. 

Larry

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Regarding how to log BFR.  You may not log as PIC if you have lapsed the BFR.  If you do the review before your BFR date passes you can log as PIC.

 

To wit: § 61.56 ©(1) & (2): “…no person may act as pilot in command of an aircraft” unless that person has accomplished a flight review within the preceding 24 months.

 

Either the CFI is PIC (lapsed BFR) or you are PIC (BFR not lapsed)...not both.  Worse?  There is no def in the FAR for "dual recieved"  The reference is to training recieved.  But are you a student just because your BFR lapsed?  Or are you still a pilot demonstrating proficiency, just not current?  Grey at best.

 

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The purpose of the flight review required by Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) 61.56 is to provide for a regular evaluation of pilot skills and aeronautical knowledge.

 

AC 6198B states that the flight review is also intended to offer pilots the opportunity to design a personal currency and proficiency program in consultation with a certificated flight instructor (CFI).  In effect, the flight review is the aeronautical equivalent of a regular medical checkup and ongoing health improvement program.

 

It is a check of proficiency and knowledge not a training session per se....

 

FAA 160119 Conducting A Flight Review

FAA Flight Review.pdf

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Yoo Hoo, a flight review is actualiy dual and should be logged in the dual column of the log book.

 

FAR §61.56(a) states that a flight review consists of a minimum of one hour of flight training and one hour of ground training. ... 

 

Flight training to me means DUAL.. 

Larry

 

Yes, it is logged as dual.

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Yes, it is logged as dual.

 

Not always. 

 

If you take the review ride before your review date you should log as PIC for the flight.  The CFI signs the book signifying the review was completed.  If you take the ride after your review date passes you are no longer current and cannot sign as PIC, the CFI is the PIC on the ride and logs accordingly.  And the CFI signs the book signifying the ride was a success. 

 

The document I included above written by the FAA on how to conduct a BFR says the intent of the BFR is much like a medical exam...it is intended to determine proficiency and fitness.  The BFR need not be a training session, and in my case I have never received nor wanted training on one.  Thus the flight is not logged as "training received."   The phrase "dual received" is not an FAA term, but may be a paraphrase of "training received" in some logbooks.

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Not always. 

 

If you take the review ride before your review date you should log as PIC for the flight.  The CFI signs the book signifying the review was completed.  If you take the ride after your review date passes you are no longer current and cannot sign as PIC, the CFI is the PIC on the ride and logs accordingly.  And the CFI signs the book signifying the ride was a success. 

 

The document I included above written by the FAA on how to conduct a BFR says the intent of the BFR is much like a medical exam...it is intended to determine proficiency and fitness.  The BFR need not be a training session, and in my case I have never received nor wanted training on one.  Thus the flight is not logged as "training received."   The phrase "dual received" is not an FAA term, but may be a paraphrase of "training received" in some logbooks.

 

Dual is a term that is used synonymously flight instruction. CFR 61.56 specifically requires a minimum of 1 hour of flight instruction and one hour of ground instruction. When the flight review is finished and it is time to log the flight you may, if you held a current flight review at the time log the flight as PIC, but it MUST be logged as flight training per 61.56. There are times that it must be logged both ways, for example if a flight instructor who did not have a medical were to give you a flight review in your Cirrus while you were still current, the flight would need to be logged as both PIC and flight training.

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