What is the common number of hours of dual before going solo?
What are you insinuating?
That is a perfectly normal number.
I believe that it is usual to solo after 8-12 hours of dual.
No it’s not.
With a national average of 70-80 hrs for the Private pilot certificate the average solo is
not 8-12 hrs.
As an instructor out of a moderately busy Class D my average was 18-19 hrs although we soloed them first at a non towered airport but their second solo was from the towered field.
We have a tragic accident here from a fledgeling aviator. Loss of life.
Let’s not take the low road.
Experienced aviators have fatal accidents too.
None of us are immune.
* The Cherokee 180 she is posing with is an old bird with likely only a stall warning light and no horn. Also a straight “Hershey bar” wing.
It was photographed in storage in 2006:
In May 2019 the airplane had a ‘serious incident’ with a runway incursion.
Although rare a mechanical or structural failure can not be ruled out as the following accident illustrates:
https://www.news-journalonline.com/n...al-plane-crash