We all work hard to develop the skills necessary to pass a checkride. A lot of effort and expense is involved. But we often lose sight of the real objective-not just building those skills to pass a checkride, but to keep those skills sharp so that we might call upon them when they're needed. One mechanism to help us do that efficiently is a proficiency checklist, one inspired by an Aviation Safety article enough years ago that it's been lost in the easily accessed archives. Recently we've gotten some feedback from long-time readers that they liked the article and still use the ideas presented there. They suggested we revisit the idea and present it again. Given the extraordinary cost of fuel and flying today, it's become ever more difficult to allocate the money to just go up and play or even to simply maintain proficiency. Increasingly, we've got to have a specified purpose to justify going flying. Before we delve into the proficiency checklist, though, let's take a look at the way a typical GA pilot maintains proficiency.
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