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Old May 15th 20, 10:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Nick Kennedy[_3_]
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Sorry in advance, I'm sure this has been hashed over before here BUT:

Does or when does participation in the FAA Wings program exempt me from having a BFR or whatever they call it these days?

TIA
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Old May 15th 20, 11:02 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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You have to finish 3 segements and still fly with an instructor. The Wings will assign flying tasks that your instructor will be asked to validate. AFAIC, Its only real benefit is it takes some of the liability off of the instructor. Way easier to just sit around after flying with the instructor and a couple of cold beers and talk FAA speak for an hour.

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Old May 15th 20, 11:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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At one time some insurance carriers offered a discount for wings participation.
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Old May 16th 20, 08:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 5:34:26 PM UTC-4, Nick Kennedy wrote:
Sorry in advance, I'm sure this has been hashed over before here BUT:

Does or when does participation in the FAA Wings program exempt me from having a BFR or whatever they call it these days?

TIA
Nick
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Wings satisfies the ground training portion. Quite likely better than 1 hour with your instructor.
Still gotta do the flying.
UH
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Old May 16th 20, 09:17 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On 5/16/20 1:52 PM, wrote:
On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 5:34:26 PM UTC-4, Nick Kennedy wrote:
Sorry in advance, I'm sure this has been hashed over before here BUT:

Does or when does participation in the FAA Wings program exempt me from having a BFR or whatever they call it these days?

TIA
Nick
T


Wings satisfies the ground training portion. Quite likely better than 1 hour with your instructor.
Still gotta do the flying.
UH


I sat through two webinars recently. Audio problems with both, they
said it was only supported on Chrome browsers, so switched to Chrome on
Win 10 and still didn't work. Except half way through, it started
working spontaneously. If they give a phone number at the beginning, be
sure to record it. Don't know how general that problem is.

Also, the seminars I looked at had a limit of 100 "seats" and missed out
on one due to it being fully booked. Some of them are on interesting
topics, but not related to airmanship or regulations, so may not be as
effective as actually sitting down with an instructor. Wings has been
around for years, thought they'd have the kinks worked out better by
nnow. The two I sat through had excellent slides, but audio problems
really detracted from the presentation.

-Dave

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Old May 17th 20, 02:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot)
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I have done a number of webinars with an iPad and Safari with no issues.....
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Old May 17th 20, 02:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Windows and Chrome has worked great here.
Might try speedtest on your Internet connection.
 




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