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.

Maintaining your Recency Experience Date is based on when you start the FIRC, not finish it. As long as you started your most recent FIRC within 3 calendar months of your Recency Experience Date, you can complete the refresher any time after that and still keep the same Recency Experience Date.

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

Airman Certification Representative. They represent a specific FIRC sponsor and are authorized to process FAA applications of valid flight instructor certificates from successful graduates of that sponsor’s program and issue temporary flight instructor certificates.