Another little gripe, which is nothing to do with the school per se but when you go on your initial lessons you will not take off and go straight into the circuit, you will fly to places like Marco Island and Imokalee to do them there. Makes for beautiful scenery but unfortunately all it means is you are racking up hours flying straight and level in transit to and from these places and giving a false idea of your flying ability in your logbook. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet or anything but I left when I was roughly solo standard after doing 16 hours but in reality it was probably more like 6 hours of actual worthwhile flying experience.
16 hrs of flying experience is 16 hrs of flying experience, nothing more AND nothing less. Learning how to fly is not only learning how to land.
Your solo in US airspace on a N-registered airplane on a US medical which means that your instructor needs to abide by the US regulations as far as pre-solo training is concerned.
Which means the following 14 CFR 61.87 (d)
(d) Maneuvers and procedures for pre-solo flight training in a single-engine airplane. A student pilot who is receiving training for a single-engine airplane rating or privileges must receive and log flight training for the following maneuvers and procedures:
(1) Proper flight preparation procedures, including preflight planning and preparation, powerplant operation, and aircraft systems;
(2) Taxiing or surface operations, including runups;
(3) Takeoffs and landings, including normal and crosswind;
(4) Straight and level flight, and turns in both directions;
(5) Climbs and climbing turns;
(6) Airport traffic patterns, including entry and departure procedures;
(7) Collision avoidance, windshear avoidance, and wake turbulence avoidance;
(8) Descents, with and without turns, using high and low drag configurations;
(9) Flight at various airspeeds from cruise to slow flight;
(10) Stall entries from various flight attitudes and power combinations with recovery initiated at the first indication of a stall, and recovery from a full stall;
(11) Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions;
(12) Ground reference maneuvers;
(13) Approaches to a landing area with simulated engine malfunctions;
(14) Slips to a landing; and
(15) Go-arounds.