American Flyers FIRC....

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mshunter

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Has become laborsome and ridiculous. Seems like if you read at a third grade level, you can still get through the information and have time left before it will let you click through to the next page.

Looks like it may be time to find someone else to do the FIRC with.
 
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I'm wading through the process as we speak. Unbelievably cumbersome and absolutely zero takeaway knowledge. I'm on the last module, have read almost zero content and scored no lower than an 80 on a single quiz. What a complete waste of time.
 
Hacker15e said:
These FIRC courses are designed to fill a regulatory requirement, not actually keep you current as a CFI.
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That fact is painfully obvious.

The only thing worse is the absurd speed IACRA is running at right now. My cert's gonna expire before the stupid site reloads at this rate.
 
I'm currently mired in the same situation with the King FIRC. I'm required to spend 40 minutes learning about a topic that's 10 pages of loosely spaced and large font recitation of 2 pages worth of material. Took me all of 6 minutes. Oh well, back to browsing Amazon in the next tab...
 
milleR said:
That fact is painfully obvious.

The only thing worse is the absurd speed IACRA is running at right now. My cert's gonna expire before the stupid site reloads at this rate.
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Thought I was the only one getting angry at that website speed. I honestly don't remember it being so slow until recently...
 
I was actually hoping to learn some new material but it's not very good. I wonder what it would take to create your own and get certified by the FAA.
 
PGT said:
I was actually hoping to learn some new material but it's not very good. I wonder what it would take to create your own and get certified by the FAA.
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A team of people and a lot of money to make it worthwhile, marketable, and actually return money invested in any kind of meaningful manner.

In other words, a pipe dream.
 
Lots of people coming due in Aug. Guess everyone went to a college program for their certs.
 
I stopped looking at the FIRC as a way of gaining much in the way of new knowledge except for seeing what one or two hot topics are. That's about the time I opted in to AF's lifetime offer. Before that I did a mix of Gleim online and live AOPA FIRC seminars (more expensive but also much more fun).

My trick for waiting to be able to click "Next..."? Hang out on online forums (or actually work on something else if feeling productive) to pass the time.
 
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