Time we went back to the old "6 months and an upgrade check."
Actually it was 200 hours instructional experience as an AFI; complete the applied IF course and then an FI upgrade test. If you took longer than 13 months to do this then you had to do an AFI renewal after 13 months anyway. In many cases it took two tests plus the cost of the applied IF Course. And a FI test every 25 months after the upgrade.
Attempts were made to run Northern Seminars but there were so few applicants it proved to be a dead loss.