On Aug 6, 10:45*am, "Stephen!" wrote:

* Somewhere between 50 and 60. *During my training I had a bit of diffculty
with tropical weather, aircraft having proper insurance, and terrorist
attacks shutting down the airspace system that extended my time several
hours longer than it should have been.

I fooled round and didn't do my PPL until I had over 70 hours.
At the time 40 hours was the lowest time permitted