Peter Duniho wrote:



The statement about "not everyone is cut out to be a pilot" says nothing
about skills. Nevertheless, in addition to that point already made by Jose,
I'll point out that in my opinion, discipline and patience ARE skills.

The fact remains, there are people who should not be pilots, for one reason
or another. These people are not "cut out to be pilots".

The feeling that I get is in some places instructors are now very very
cautious about sending any-one off solo.
Up until recently here pilots were soloed as soon as they proved
themselves capable of flying a circuit.
Now as far as I can tell there is a minimum of 10 hours before they
even consider the pilots skills.
Any-one who has spent more than 20 hours+ training but not solo is, in
my opinion, far to patient and should be considering changing
instructors and/or airfields..