Overview
- AOPA announced Wednesday that 15,000 pilots have completed the Rusty Pilots courses and gone back to flying since the program launched in 2014.
- Rusty Pilots is offered as in-person seminars, live webinars, and a self-paced online course that update pilots on FAA rules, airspace changes, medical reform, weather tools, preflight planning, and radio procedures.
- Each course track offers FAA WINGS credit and supplies either a logbook endorsement or a completion certificate that pilots can show to a flight instructor to help satisfy the flight review and regain legal currency.
- The program is free for AOPA members and available to non-members for $89, and it is funded and supported by donations to the AOPA Foundation.
- AOPA places Rusty Pilots inside a wider effort to grow the pilot pipeline through high-school outreach, nearly 300 flying clubs, and more than $2 million in annual scholarships, giving returning pilots clearer and cheaper paths back into active flying.