(Mackfly) wrote
he saysUp to 10 of your hours in gliders count towards the 40 hours required
for ASEL.

When I added ASEL to ticket I used 5 hours Glider Dual--I had 5:01 and 10 hours
Glider Solo.

You are correct. I shot from the hip and missed.

The actual regs can actually allow you to get by with as little as 12
hours dual (or less if you combine XC, night, instruments, and test
prep in some way) and 10 hours solo in airplanes - the rest can be in
gliders as long as you have 20 hours dual in total. Not sure why I
thought you needed 30 hours in airplanes, but you don't.

In practice, I think it would be tough to fulfull all the requirements
in much less than 30 hours of airplane time, but it's not impossible.

As for how much flying you actually do and your 30:1 ratio - well, go
hand-fly a twin across the Gulf on instruments while dodging T-storms,
then come back and tell me about it.

Michael