61.56 question

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Impy02

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If a CFI has endorsed a flight review showing .8 hrs. of flight time, is the review valid and the endorsed pilot legal?
 
No. It violates the letter of 61.56:"...a minimum of 1 hour of flight training and 1 hour of ground training...."

If he's going to lie and give perfunctory training, then he has to lie all the way through the entry. Call any attention to oneself, and provided that CFI signed it off as a Biennial flight review, he is toast.
 
Maybe. Is there another entry somewhere? It has to be at least an hour but it doesn't all have to be at once, if you go up for a couple hours on one flight and just can't get one part of the review done it's OK to come back and finish up another day. Probably worth a comment in the remarks tho....
 
There would have to be at least 0.2 hours of flight training and an hour of ground training from that instructor labeled as being part of the same flight review. Without that, no, it's not legally sufficient, and the instructor is risking enforcement action for having signed that flight review endorsement without it. Whether the FAA would take action against the reviewee is unknown, but by signing that endorsement without meeting the requirement, the instructor has definitely provided documentary evidence of a violation by the instructor of 61.56.
 
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