Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
And I know, from personal experience, how dangerously incompetent I become the day after my BFR falls due.
I seriously doubt I’ve taken away any skill that I didn’t posses before, by doing my last 3 BFR’s or more.
Many pilots take their learning from their original instructors and complement that over the years with idle gossip from the airport about changes to procedures, plus possibly the odd email from CASA about rule changes and possibly if they are lucky, may take something away from their AFR.
The one hour flight time for the AFR and the little quiz that some offer is arguably a waste of time and purely a box-ticking exercise.
Maybe I’ve been doing mine with the wrong operators...
I am confident that for IFR pilots that the story is quite different, however old-mate with his 1,000 hours and his Garmin Aera has probably been flying this way and hasn’t changed since his licence test, like many other pilots out there.