On 4/2/04 9:39 AM, in article %Webc.165213$po.972319@attbi_s52, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Congrats. It's fun to watch the hours tick off, over the years.

I remember when I was a student, and there was an instrument student at my
FBO that had (*gasp!*) TWO HUNDRED HOURS.

I thought he was God himself.

Now, with 800-some hours, and growing about 100 per year, I realize how
little he knew, and how REALLY little I knew.

In fact, I'm sometimes amazed that they let any of us fly at all, with just
40-something hours on the clock...

;-)

I look back and wonder how my instructor could have let me solo at 12 hours.
Signing off a student to solo or take a checkride, have to be some of the
scariest moments in aviation.
--
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