fergup, good luck, I'm sure you'll do great.

SkyDude, when I got back in after being away 10ish years, I found it came back really fast. But I did have someone else take the plane up for me first to trim it, and hand me the box. I spent the first tank of fuel in the pattern doing high level approaches to get the landing reflexes back, since I figured that was the very first thing I needed to get comfortable with again.

I'm glad I didn't just try to take off on my own the first time, I'm not sure how that would have ended. But I found that once you get past that first bit of nerves and "oh yeah, NOW I remember" stuff, the rest just falls back in to place.

I suspect it does depend on how good of a pilot you were when you got out, and how long you'd been flying before that.