Originally Posted by
kingsnake2
And why a flight school should never promise a sign off after a 1 hour flight. If you haven't flow in 10+ years, a one hour of ground and one hour of flight is unlikely to make you safe.
Having just competed my Flight Review after a 10-year hiatus, I concur. The instructor that I started with said he's found it usually takes 2hrs of flight for every year a person has been away from flying. I got my sign-off at just under 22hrs of flight instruction.