"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz *AT* adelphia *DOT* net wrote in
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Question: Maybe I'm reading you too literally but, are you going to have
to
get through your 10 hrs of solo time "before" you start the x-country
time?
I would think that you could do a lot of that concurrently.

I don't think so. It'd take me a couple weeks to knock out those 10
solo hours. Since I was tasked to create a flight plan to head to the
desert, I'd imagine we're actually going to make that flight in the
near future. Looking at the schedule for this morning, I see I'm
scheduled for dual today. Not sure if it's going ot happen as we got
some Noah's Ark style rain at 3 this morning and it's still coming
down steady.. Not sure what visibility is going to be at the field,
but at the least, I can hit the cafe and get some breakfast and get
some informal one on one ground..


That sounds about right to me too. What I remember from my fixed wing
training is that we did a duel x-country first. I'd imagine that's what
your flight plan assignment is about. I was then signed off for 2 or 3
short solo x-countries with remedial training in between. I then did my
long x-country. Back then, that one had to be 3 legs, each at least 100
nm's long. The regs have changed since then, from what I understand so it's
a little different these days for the student plank fliers. I'm not up on
what the regs require of rotorcraft students. The end result was that I
finished my required x-country time with only an hour or so of solo time to
wrap up and it all came together very close to the 40 hour minimum for a
private pilot ticket. I hope the timing in your training works out as well!

Looking forward to reading about your first x-country adventure. How do you
fly a helicopter and manipulate a sectional at the same time anyway? ;-)

Fly Safe,
Steve R.