* I remember looking at his logbook and seeing his first solo on the 4th
entry, after 3.5 hrs of instruction in an Ercoupe.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


3.5 Hah! Can't beat that today. At some point back then the written
was only 25 true / false questions (according to Dick Collins on one
of his videos).

I must be a chicken-sheet. I don't think I'd WANT to solo at 3.5
hours. Could've with a gun at my head. But woudn't have otherwise. I
did at 12.5 and thought, "Hell, it won't be long before I've got that
certificate in the bag."

Wrong again. WRONG AGAIN.