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WINGS program...
Just a little heads up: if like me, you rely on the WINGS program to satisfy the proficiency requirements of 14 CFR 61.56, then you might be in trouble and you most definitely want to look into it before your next flight: The old program has, I am told, been 'sunset' on December 2007. In other words, if you are today flying under the impression that you are legal to do so because you completed a Wings phase under the old system, you might very well be mistaken (or so says the dude at the FSDO to whom I spoke as well as the nice person from AOPA with whom I exchanged a couple of emails); It gets even better: to my knowledge, and please correct me if I am wrong, the advisory circular which describes the Wings program and the requirement that must be met to satisfy 61.56(e), i.e., AC 61-91H, has NOT been superseded. And that's where it is getting fun, because what it describes is the old Wings program, not the new one. So, until proven otherwise, the new Wings program is of no value whatsoever to satisfy the requirements of 61.56 either. ....and good luck finding anything on the faasafety.gov web site about what are the relevant regulations and/or advisory circulars that are relevant to the new Wings program (you do find references to AC 61-91H and AC 61-98A, but that's not what I was looking for); So, first thing I do this afternoon is calling the nice folks of the AOPA legal team, and I have scheduled myself a BFR this weekend. --Sylvain |
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