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I had an FAA guy in my jumpseat who offered to renew mine no questions asked. Previously I used American Flyers, it was $99 for unlimited renewals. I had kept mine updated for almost 15 years that way. If you let it expire you must redo a checkride. Nope, not doing that again!
It's so simple to renew, a few hours every other year, JUST DO IT!
I gotta wonder what the resistance is on here from some about taking a checkride. We take checkrides all the time in this business that are far more complex than those in the GA world. So what's the hullabaloo about a CFI or CFII?
As for my own experience, I let my CFI lapse years ago. I did the FIRCs for years until one day realizing that if things were so bad in this industry that my only choice was to go teach stalls and turns around a point again, that I would probably just get out of aviation, at least temporarily. About the only thing that would make me want to go get reinstated would be if my kids decided they wanted to learn to fly.