Spanish bandits!
But seriously it’s a silly system; collect your signatures before you can send first solos. How does sending 25 post first solos suddenly allow you to send a first solo?
Surely 100 hours instructing and a good brief from an FI on sending first solos would be more sensible. But I’m not bitter 3/25 collected in one year. Too many IMC students!
It is odd that I can pop down the road, stick roundels on my Single Engine Piston and send 16 year olds off into the blue yonder on their first solos.
Silllllllly, very silly!