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VFR Refresher Courses:Sporty’s Rusty Pilot Tops

Course content is broken into nine sections, each of which begins with an audiovisual presentation. The presentations-slides with a voice-over-provide an overview of the section topic and generally run between 5 and 15 minutes. There is a note-taking function available during the presentations. Each presentation is followed by a 10-question true/false study quiz, which serves as a pretty good indicator of how much studying you need to be doing on the topic. Answers are reviewed after completion with explanations presented below the questions. Section reviews emphasize terminology, which might be quite useful for a pilot who has been away from the industry for a while, but less so for someone still comfortable with pilot lingo.

Kate OConnor
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When time flies and you don’t, the scheduling or financial issues that kept you grounded might result in an expired medical and the need for a flight review. By that time, your piloting skills are likely in desperate need of some polish. Fortunately, there are good home-study courses available to help those of us faced with this very situation.

But picking the best course for either getting back into flying or getting ready for a flight review is a lot about knowing your learning style. For this article we took a look at five popular interactive online courses for rusty pilots getting back in the air, or to supplement real-world VFR refresher training. Here’s what we found.

Kate OConnor