On 2006-06-11, Jay Honeck wrote:
How many guys do you know that tell you "I soloed a plane back in 19xx" --
but never got their ticket?

I have met a whole bunch of them. I don't want my son to solo, get "stuck"
in a rut waiting, and then never finish up.

You face as much of a risk of him getting "stuck" in a rut waiting, and
then never start at all. If he solos then goes no further, well, perhaps
he never had the flame burning for aviation at all. If he does have the
passion for it, he'll finish it up.

The vast majority of the soloed but never finished up crowd discovered
they didn't really have the passion for it after all - otherwise they
would have finished up. If it was because they didn't have the resources
(time, money etc.) then surely it's better to have tasted solo flight and
lost, rather than never flown solo at all?

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