Your flight review, on one card.
✓ Reviewed by a pilot
A pilot certificate doesn't expire, but you can't act as pilot in command unless you've had a flight review, or passed a checkride or a WINGS phase, since the beginning of the 24th calendar month before the month you fly. Put in the date of your last one and this card shows your last day, keeps your instrument currency in view, and puts it on your calendar. Free, and it stays on this phone.
Your flight review
The next date, years on. The board renews on this cycle but hasn't posted this date yet; check the 14 CFR 61.56.
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How to renew
- Book an authorized instructor in an aircraft you're rated for. The review is at least 1 hour of flight training and 1 hour of ground training: the part 91 operating and flight rules, plus the maneuvers and procedures the instructor picks (14 CFR 61.56(a)).
- Get the logbook endorsement from the instructor who gave it (61.56(c)(2)).
- These count instead (61.56(d) and (e)): a pilot proficiency check or practical test for a pilot certificate, rating or operating privilege; a flight instructor practical test; or one or more phases of WINGS.
- Hold a CFI certificate? Meeting 61.197 recent experience, or reinstating with a FIRC under 61.199(a)(1), inside the same period skips the 1 hour of ground training (61.56(f)).
- Fly IFR? Log 6 instrument approaches, holding, and intercepting and tracking courses in the 6 calendar months before the month of the flight, in the aircraft or a simulator, FTD or ATD for that category (61.57(c)). Fall more than 6 calendar months behind that and only an instrument proficiency check gets you back (61.57(d)). The instructor can combine it with your flight review (61.56(h)).
- Put the new date on this card. You're covered through the last day of that same month, two years later.
If it runs out
- You can't act as pilot in command until you do one (14 CFR 61.56(c)).
- Your certificate is still good: a pilot certificate "is issued without an expiration date" (61.19(c)(1)).
- The fix is the same: a flight review with an authorized instructor, a WINGS phase, or a checkride. Then you're covered for another 24 calendar months.
Where every number comes from
- Flight review every 24 calendar months; what counts instead; the CFI ground-hour credit: 14 CFR 61.56
- (a) 90-day takeoffs and landings; (c) 6-month instrument experience; (d) instrument proficiency check: 14 CFR 61.57
- Pilot certificates have no expiration date: 14 CFR 61.19
- Any WINGS phase satisfies the flight review: FAASafety.gov: WINGS
- Sample flight review and WINGS endorsements: FAA AC 61-65K, Appendix A (A.69, A.70)
Checked November 11, 2026.
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