You Can Fly: How to get back into flying
Rusty Pilots seminars help you return to the cockpit
Meet Chris Moser, AOPA director of flight training initiatives
As part of the You Can Fly Pilot Community Development team, Chris Moser manages and supports AOPA’s programs, events, and initiatives related to growing and strengthening the pilot population. Moser oversees the Rusty Pilots program, the Flight Training Poll and Excellence Awards, and is currently developing programs to support and enhance flight school operations. Moser has 17 years’ experience as a classroom teacher, worked as a full-time flight instructor and freight pilot in Arizona, and was an AOPA aviation technical specialist. He is a commercial pilot, Gold Seal CFI, CFII, MEI, and a Maryland state-certified teacher.
If you’re like more than 500,000 other pilots (that’s right, half a million), you may have taken a little breather from flying. Maybe more than a little. Perhaps life threw you a curve. Maybe a family, a growing business, or a medical setback had something to do with it. Whatever the case, things are different now. Do you think you’ve lost too much and forgotten everything? Afraid it’ll be like starting over? Rusty Pilots seminars will get you back in the left seat fast.
Pilot certificates never expire. Once a pilot, always a pilot. You never have to take another test or worry about another checkride. All you need is a flight review (formerly known as a biennial flight review). A little brush-up with your local CFI, enough flights to demonstrate competence again (minimum one hour), and you’re back in the air.
AOPA has put together a fun, interactive program that gives you all the information you need to get current again. Our dynamic Rusty Pilots seminar presenters bring you up to speed on hot-button issues such as medical reforms, weather briefings, preflight planning, regulations, and airspace. You’ll leave the seminar with a logbook endorsement attesting that you’ve completed three hours of ground training toward your flight review. And we’ll help you connect with flight instructors in your area so you can take the next step and quickly get back to active flying status. Rusty Pilots seminars are free for AOPA members.
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