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Old 16th September 2005 | 09:02
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slim_slag
 
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Tacitus actually asked a very wooly question but I suspect his first language is not English.

what was the average time it took you to complete your training , for example total hours , hours for the first solo

The average time for the total population to complete their training is about 55 hours. Average time to first solo for the total population is about 15 hrs. FAA figures.

Individuals within the group will have their own time which depends on all sorts of factors, and it's pretty irrelevant. People with apparent low times to solos have, in my experience, unlogged time. You get the occasional whizz kid who has never been in a light aircraft before and just 'gets it' within 10 hours, but they are the exception rather than the rule.

Also if someone complete his PPL , for example , after 60 hrs of training does it mean that he is and a lousy pilot ?

Absolutely not.

Tacitus - a better question to ask would be how much is it going to cost to solo/get a licence/continue flying. You can then plan accordingly for your personal goal, but the answers are varying amounts of 'a lot'.
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