I just love this site!
I think you will find, Neville, that if you do some more reading that it is 10 hrs solo. Care to provide some evidence for your assertion re costs?
You can disagree all you like Fonz - it is just that I haven't met anyone that doesn't want to be an SO. That of course doesn't mean that they don't exist - I just haven't met one or two or three. Perhaps they are rare?
Boring being an SO? Hardly. No more bored than the guy/girl sitting next to you on that trans-Pacific flight. Oh that is right - they get to actually land and take off the aircraft. 20 mins work in a 14 hr sector. Yeeehaaaa! Woopee!
B.F.D.