Quote "To complete the flying course, the Prince spent 13 hours in a Slingsby T67 light aircraft receiving lessons from an instructor but did not have to fly solo."
How come he didn't get to solo? I'd have thought for the stude's own confidence and self-belief you'd always want to send him solo in whatever he's trained in, and I'd have thought 13 hours was more than enough to send him to bash a few circuits on his own. Now admittedly I'm only a glider pilot (who can't afford a PPL
) so I don't really know what would be required. Can someone tell me what the requirement to first solo as a powered ab-init would normally be (I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that there would be a minimum dual time).
MSJ