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![]() I'm going to take the opposite from the prevailing oppinion on this... There absolutley should be a minimum amount of hours to solo (15-20), as flying through the pattern a few times here and there is nowhere sufficient for a pilot to solo (especially out of anything with a tower... and forget about it in less than a certain amount of hours in class B), this minimum shoul dbe there for the same reason that we have a "minimum" amount of hours to get a Private, to get your instrument rating to get a CPL. There is an amount of time that a person just needs to be sitting behind the controls of a plane to be able to fly a plane with reasonable ability, as they are not even proficient in operation at that point. An instructor that sends out a student with 3 hours or less is definitley being reckless and endangering his students and fellow pilots. Taxiing out to the runway say 3 times (once every hour), having done 3 run ups (maybe), is not sufficient enough to prepare anyone for the complex situations that may arise in the air. |
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