The FAASTeam alternative allows you to attend an FAA safety seminar in person or online and take three hours dual instruction within a two-year period. [Adobe Stock]
Key Takeaways:
The FAASTeam WINGS program offers an alternative to the traditional two-year flight review, combining online or in-person safety seminars with three hours of dual flight instruction.
Many pilots and the author perceive the current WINGS program as overly complicated, bureaucratic, difficult to use, and suffering from low pilot participation.
The author contrasts the current system with his past experience organizing successful, community-driven WINGS Weekends, lamenting a perceived decline in effectiveness and engagement since program changes in 2006.
Since retiring, I’ve heard little or nothing from pilot friends about choosing to meet the 61.56 mandatory two-year flight review by enrolling in the FAA’s FAASTeam program.
When I investigated, it seemed obvious that this route is more complicated—certainly more than when the WINGS program began in 1996.
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Martha Lunken is a lifelong pilot, former FAA inspector and defrocked pilot examiner. She flies a Cessna 180 and anything with a tailwheel, from Cubs to DC-3s.
