Quickest CFI renewal?

[MarineGrunt]

Looking for the absolute QUICKEST CFI renewal from someone that has next to zero available time.

Thanks for any help!!!

 

[midlifeflyer]

Assuming you're talking about an FIRC, it's probably Gleim. No built in time restrictions and the materials are pdf that you can read as needed instead of multi media that you have to sit through before you're able to move on.

 

[Irish Pilot]

Assuming you're talking about an FIRC, it's probably Gleim. No built in time restrictions and the materials are pdf that you can read as needed instead of multi media that you have to sit through before you're able to move on.

I just did gleim a few weeks ago and if you sit down and use the pdf files it only takes about 2 hours....16 chapters....10 questions per chapter. Piece o cake.

 

[MarineGrunt]

PERFECT! Thanks!

BTW - Does Gleim then submit everything to the FAA for you, or do you have to mail stuff in?

 

[skyaddict]

I'm doing American Flyers now for the second time. It is good in that it is a one time payment and then good for a lifetime... but it is bad in that it has the time requirements for each chapter before you can do the test- 100 minutes for chapter 1. So I just log in my computer and come back when the time is up.~ Gleim sounds faster.

 

[Clutch_Cargo]

PERFECT! Thanks!

BTW - Does Gleim then submit everything to the FAA for you, or do you have to mail stuff in?

Gleim gives you the option... you can print out a completion certificate and go to your local FSDO or you can mail in all your documentation to Gleim and they will process it for you... for an extra fee of course.

 

[MarineGrunt]

I know the course graduation certificate expires after 3 months, but is there a time-frame in which you have to complete the course? Say if one were to take 2-3 months to finish it...?

 

[Clutch_Cargo]

I know the course graduation certificate expires after 3 months, but is there a time-frame in which you have to complete the course? Say if one were to take 2-3 months to finish it...?

The course is a work-at-your-own-pace setup... no time limit start to finish. The completion certificate really isn't good for three months... it's that you can renew up to three months early and still keep your current expiration date. If you renewed four months early, you would get an expiration date four months newer than your old. You can't renew late... there is no "grace past" period. If your cfi expires March 31st and you have not completed the course and submitted the paperwork to the FSDO or Gleim before then, you're **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**e out o' luck. The only way to renew then is to take a practical. I've heard some guys say they have renewed expired cfi's w/ the FSDO just by stopping by, but I wouldn't bet on it... it's not supposed to work that way.

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Edit: BTW, here is the link to Gleim's FIRC if you're interested in reading up on it. https://www.gleim.com/aviation/firc2/index.php?

 

[MarineGrunt]

Thanks for the replies!!!