If you’re interested in learning more on your own, consider the FAA’s Wings program. With three hours of flight training and one aviation seminar — several of which are offered for free online by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation — you earn a get-out-of-jail-free card on your biennial flight review. Since the flight training includes an hour of instrument maneuvers and the ground study offers several weather seminars to choose from, you just might learn more that what the NTSB’s suggestions impose — while having fun doing it. (Plus, the Wings program rewards you with a lapel pin.)
