On Oct 3, 5:11 pm, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:
The AOPA has some stuff on recurrent training currency.

The IR is detail and if you don't use it you lose it fast.
The currency requirement is 6 months and you must do an ICC
after a year, but that may be enough for a 6,000 pilot who
flies almost daily. But it is very inadequate for the
private pilot who just go the rating and forgot about
recurrent daily training.

Sadly, in my experience as a CFII, any pilot who gets his IR ticket
and then does not activly use it for the first couple of years will
never feel comfortable in the clouds and will not use the rating. This
is why I honestly believe that the IR should not be done by everyone.
Too often I think the IR is used as an "upsale" by CFII's for business
without looking at the actual value that pilots will get from it. If
you just want to become a better VFR pilot there are lots of less
expensive, more fun things to do (sea , multi , tailwheel, 737 type
rating , etc)

-Robert, CFII