A disturbing statistic

: A BFR for someone who flies a lot is
: probably going to seem like a joke.

: It sure does. My favorite quote, from the first time I took a BFR in
: my own airplane: "Wow, you do these maneuvers even better than someone
: who just took his private checkride." The CFI actually said this, and
: truly meant it as a compliment. Implicitly, he was saying that people
: are routinely passing BFR's without meeting private pilot standards.

Not to pick nits (FWIW I mostly agree with what you are saying), but this logic isn't quite true. Just because someone going
for a BFR is not passing maneuvers as well as a student pilot going for a checkride does not mean that he's not up to checkride PTS
standards. Many a checkride candidate *well* exceeds the PTS standards on most airwork things, but is held up due to other reasons.
A student pilot likely has lots of recent experience, which results in a good "feel."

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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