The logbook is your personal document. It becomes a legal document
only when you submit it for inspection by the FAA for a checkride or
ramp check. Even in that case, only the experience necessary for the
check would be relevant. The legality of your prior flight would
rarely come into question unless there was an insurance claim, and in
that case it would be an insurance matter rather than a FAA matter. If
these were personal flights, don't worry about it. Get a flight review
now, and move on.

Calling a FSDO is proably a bad idea. It's like calling the police and
confessing that you have exceeded the speed limit in the past.
However, filing an ASRS can't hurt.





On Mar 24, 5:57 pm, Anonymous coward #673 wrote:
I fly through an organization that requires a proficiency check ride
every six months. As a result I somehow got it into my head that I
didn't need to worry about BFR's any more. But today my instructor
reminded me that a BFR requires an hour of ground instruction, so
technically I have not completed a BFR for (as it turns out) more than
two years (though I have received considerably more recurrent in-flight
training than the regs require). My log book now contains entries for
numerous flights conducted (inadvertently) in violation of FAR61.56.

My question to the group: what is the best way to handle this situation?
Obviously I am going to get my hour of ground instruction ASAP, but what
about all those flights that I've already logged? Should I file an ASRS
form? Call up the local FSDO and confess? Scribble out all those log
entries? Deduct the hours on those illegal flights from my PIC time?
Bribe my flight instructor to back-date my BFR? Or should I just not
worry about it and hope they don't haul my ass to Gitmo for falsifying
my log book?