Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I would have **assumed** that our (USN/USMC) annual NATOPS Evaluation (our emergencies simulator) and our annual NATOPS Instrument Evaluation (standard instrument checkride) would have sufficed for the BFR; but I am not smart on the requirements for a BFR in the first place so I'll be interested in hearing what the FSDO has to say about it.
USMCFLYR
It would make sense, yes. Of course legal is not always safe...
I knew of these two viper guys who bought a 172 (or 152?) for fun...they promptly cracked it up on landing. Insurance bought them another one, which they also wrecked in short order. After that they hung it up.