The first solo, as i'm sure you all know is the hover solo
Mine wasn't! I was straight into the circuit. If I had done a hover solo first, I might have had more appreciation about the difference my instructor's couple of cwt made!! Perhaps there was a weight and balance issue and that school had run out of sandbags!
I have heard of this "supervised" solo thing before from an FAA PPL(H) but didn't believe it.
Cheers
Whirls