On Oct 22, 11:02*am, g l i d e r s t u d
wrote:
If you have signed off 5 initial students for their checkride, and
have an 80% pass rate, you can take those appropriate records to your
local FSDO office and they will renew your license.

Even after the online stuff or the FSDO office you still have to do a
Flight Review. Finding a DPE or someone from the FSDO *office to fly
with may save the most amount of time. You can get the CFIG renewal
and flight review all done at once.

This is the best answer yet. Before the local FSDO glider examiner
retired I used to get a hold of him and we would have the whole thing
done in one afternoon. I have also done the Gliem course and found it
to be most usefull. I learn new stuff every time.
FKBaum