Originally Posted by
CrakPipeOvrheat
I am more comfortable doing it right the first time around and not worrying about the future. Some people are looking for DPE's who will allow them to use an expired written just because they currently work at a 121. It sounds shady to me.
It won't matter, they'll catch it. A guy in my class at Mesa had his checkride invalidated a month after the fact for his written expiring at the end of July after we'd started class. He had to go take the ATP training course at his expense and retake the written, oral and checkride before he could start IOE.