First Solo De-brief, Formal or Informal, Where, When?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Yes a debrief after the first solo is mandatory, it consists of " You did it!!!!! "

Picking fly **** out of pepper is not needed after the first solo.

Any instructor who teaches based only on what " the book " says is not an instructor they are robots and better suited to getting a job as a bureaucrat in government where one only crosses the T's and dots the I's.

The first solo is a once in a life time experience and should not be tainted by debriefing, if the student wants to ask a question about what they did that is fine, then you advise.