FAQ's

If there is ever any confusion on this, this will help to clear it up. It is not a consideration for your CFI to either accept or not accept the WINGsReality EDU Flight Review Ground School. You are the pilot, as well as the paying customer of the CFI. Just like every other time that you have hired a CFI, you are hiring the CFI to work with you on a specific task. Once you have completed the WINGsReality EDU Flight Review Ground School, you will hire a CFI to work with you on the “flight portion” of your flight review. You will have already completed the ground requirement, and you will have a signed logbook endorsement for that. The CFI who trains you through the flight portion is only providing the training and the endorsement for the flight portion.

Throughout the history of aviation, it has always been common practice to complete various parts of a ground or flight training program using multiple and different flight schools, flight instructors, training systems, curricula, etc. In fact, very few pilots ever complete a training program with a single instructor. In Part 141 training courses, the FAA actually requires alternate instructors to conduct “stage checks” to all students as a tool to ensure the quality of the training provided and to validate the learning outcome of the student. As such, the FARs do not require a flight review to be completed with a single CFI. The regs only tell us what we must complete, not how we must go about it. We can work on our flight reviews with different flight schools, with different CFIs, in different states, and at different times. We encourage your CFI to use our "ground portion" endorsement as a model for their "flight portion" endorsement. It is really quite simple, and not unlike the way CFIs have provided training in modules for decades. In fact, numerous CFIs send all of their flight review customers to us to complete the ground portion prior to flying with them.

All of that said, we also understand that some level of make and model specific training is imperative not only in flight reviews, but in all phases of flight training. This is true whether you are flying a C-172, a Cirrus, a Bonanza, a 737, or anything else. An analysis of make and model knowledge, skills, and currency is part of the Aeronautical Decision Making process that pilots should incorporate into every flight, be it a quick trip around the traffic pattern, or a long and challenging cross country operation. We talk about this concept at length in Module Four of our flight review ground school. In the flight portion of a flight review, it is fully expected that the CFI would make sure that any make and model specific training is adequately covered, and the pilot is evaluated and found competent in those knowledge and skill sets. Our program is designed to address the regulatory aspects of your flight review as well as to provide comprehensive training that pertains to the ongoing safety education of all pilots. It is very specific to providing training in the elements that continue to dominate the accident and incident statistics. Traditional flight reviews generally do not provide excellent training on runway incursion avoidance or aeronautical decision making, which incidentally is a causal factor in almost all accidents and incidents. Our objective is to improve safety for everyone by providing a great opportunity to learn and refresh on those topics. Feedback indicates that we have done an excellent job to that effort. We only hope that all CFIs who are providing the flight training portion of flight reviews are providing pilots with a learning experience that is of similar quality. We always welcome their calls and messages, and we are always willing to help them to make their programs better.

The FAA recognizes the WINGsReality EDU Flight Review Ground School, and further rewards pilots who participate in the program with four WINGs credits. We are very proud of the contribution that we bring to the table with the WINGsReality EDU Flight Review Ground School. It is globally agreed by participants that this program provides a better learning experience than traditional flight reviews do. We are confident that you too will enjoy your experience with us. Thank you for your questions.