"Supervised" solo flight
Had a chap rock up here with an American PPL (H) who had gone through the whole syllabus over there and NEVER ACTUALLY FLEW SOLO.
His "solo" flights always included his instructor, presumably some insurance thing. They called it "supervised solo flying" which strikes me as a contradiction in terms. The standard of his flying was also not up to our level and it was only after a further 15 hours of training here (RSA) that we sent him (unsupervised) solo.
How common is this practice among US flight schools and is it actually legal?