Good feeling landing / 200th hour

"Jürgen Exner" wrote in message .. .
Robert Simpson wrote:
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I see it took about 9 months from first flight to solo, 7 more months
to the check ride and about 26 months total to accumulate 200 hours
and begin IFR instruction. Is this pretty close to the time it
usually takes to get to these milestones?

Well, there are flying schools which offer a Private Pilot course including
the check ride within 2 weeks.
And they actually deliver what they promise!
However, while you may have a license after those 2 weeks, you still don't
know how to fly.

I could argue either side of that. I would say that as a CFI about 25%
of the cockpit time I spend with students is going over what they
missed when family took them out of town, etc and they didn't fly for
2 weeks. If you can cram an entire private in 2 weeks, the student
probably doesn't have to do much relearning. I've never worked at such
an outfit but I imagine it works well. Now, the weekend instrument
rating, I'm not sure about. I don't think I'm putting my Grandmother
in a plane with a pilot about to launch IMC with a weekend IFR ticket
but I may well with a 2 week private.
-Robert CFI