No. To guarantee the renewal, the ACR requires at least 5 business days. So you must complete the first 4 steps of your renewal checklist in time to guarantee the renewal.

Maintaining your expiration date is based on when you start the FIRC, not finish it. As long as you started your most recent FIRC within 4 months of your expiration date, you can complete the renewal any time after that and still keep the same expiration date.

Yes, you have enough time. After you complete the online course, submit your application for renewal on the FAA’s IACRA site. Then provide us with the necessary ID info by completing the first 4 steps of the renewal checklist in your American Flyers account. To guarantee the renewal, the ACR requires at least five business days before the expiration date printed on the back of your CFI certificate.

If you fail once, you immediately get a second attempt. If you fail that, our FIRC support team will reset it for another 2 attempts. If you fail those, we will put you in touch with our National Chief Pilot for any questions you may have. After that, the test will be reset for a fifth attempt.

There are two, 30 multiple choice question quizzeone at the end of Lesson 6 and one that is comprehensive at the end of Lesson 13. 70% is required to pass.

Once you purchase the FIRC it is yours to use for life. If you want to save yourself a trip to the FSDO and have American Flyers complete your renewal, the IACRA processing method is additional each time you renew.

The material cannot be downloaded. To ensure you have satisfied the minimum time requirement for each lesson, you must do the course on a device with an active internet connection.

Yes, simply log back in to your account, click on the lesson you were in and then click on the “Page-Next” button till it stops you from progressing any further. This will be the spot where you left off when you were called away from your computer.

The FAA has mandated a few changes to online FIRC presentations. One of these changes ensures each candidate satisfies the minimum time requirement for each lesson. We have installed a timer at the top of each page to accomplish this. You will need to demonstrate some interactive action (i.e., page refresh, next page) once every 10 minutes. Doing so will ensure that the timer continues to run. If you do not have some interactive action within the 10 minutes, the timer will stop until you refresh or change pages. Once you refresh or change pages, the timer will resume counting.

The online FIRC consists of 13 lessons. There are two, 30 multiple choice question quizzes, one at the end of Lesson 6 and one that is comprehensive at the end of Lesson 13. 70% is required to pass. After you’ve successfully completed all lessons, you must submit your application through the FAA’s IACRA site. To guarantee the renewal, the ACR requires at least five business days before the expiration date printed on the back of your CFI certificate.