My time will live in logbook forever and will forever annoy me!
Due to the slight 'over-sight' on my AME's part in the UK, he issued me with an FAA Class 2 and 'forgot' to include a student pilot certificate. So there are am ready to solo after 8 hours but am unable to do so because I have no Student Pilot Cert. Cos I was only in the US for 3 weeks I had to get the hours in which meant a 3.5 hour X-country which took me to 11.5 hours. THEN...I had to fly to a different airport to catch up with the only fAA chap in FL who could issue me with a SPC.
So...after all that 4.5 hours after I was ready, I flew back to ISM, out jumped my instructor and off I went.
12.5 hours but should have been sooner. grrrr
Edited for uneccesary 'langauge'
[ 05 December 2001: Message edited by: bow5 ]