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B A R R Y wrote:

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I very successfully took my FAA check ride well before the national
average hours (including three stage checks for ~ 5 flight hours), yet
my symbolic "first solo" was farther along than many who brag about how
quickly they were able to do so.

a lot of times this kind of thing comes up in r.a.s. people will talk
about how hours to solo isn't a race, and the objective is to learn
enough to pass the checkride for the ASEL, etc etc.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate