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... Over the years, I signed up for several of the FIRCs put on by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation, one from American Flyers, and a couple of others. I found the courses about as enjoyable as a trip to the dentist. And because I live in a rural area, they all involved traveling hundreds of miles to a city where the FIRC was being held (Oakland, Long Beach, Tucson), and paying for several days worth of hotel and restaurant bills, in addition to the course tuition.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/gleim-firc-easy-does-it