Originally Posted by IO540
But the basic point is that the PPL training sausage machine's phychotic preoccupation with "going solo" is thoroughly unhealthy and wastes a lot of hours by stressing out the student through endless circuit bashing.
Good point - reading many post including mine there is an obsession with going solo as quickly as poss (bragging rights), but in the grand scheme of things just because you can claim to have gone solo after 3.5 HRS (who ever it was but not sure i believe him) it doesn't make you a better pilot than a 20 hr to solo or however many hours it takes for things to get in place to go solo. In fact the arrogance created could make you a worse pilot in the long run potentially.