Start early!
It can and probably should take about 6 months to get your app up to the 99% solution...independent of the time it takes to study, prep, etc.
dont beleive me?
-what’s the mailing address where you went to AFEO (Life support Officer) school?
-what were the exact date you were at SoS? B-course? Etc
-what was the phone number to the ops desk at a squadron that’s now at Holloman? Closed?
-what’s the disposition of that speeding ticket you got around 2008? What was the date? Where? If you just mail in a payment have you been found guilty? Is that different in Virginia vs Nevada?
-who was your supervisor at your college job?
-do you have sealed high school and college transcripts?
-what’s on your faa record?
all of the information is out there...it just takes time and leg work to get. The 99% application takes OCD level attention to detail