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Old 8th Feb 2011, 13:45
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MudRat_02
 
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Septerra,

It will depend on a number of factors but assuming you pick it up at a reasonable pace it will only take you a couple of hours to go solo on gliders. Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3 up to 10 hours, but obviously it depends more than just how competent you are (weather, instructors, frequency of flights...). If you're using motor gliders then obviously for a given timeframe you'll have more freedom to practice certain aspects of a flight (ie. get more circuits in) if you desire and possibly solo sooner.

Those packages are foreign to me; both places I've glided at over the past few years have been considerably cheaper and don't tend to do large blocks of instruction like that or set timeframes for solo.


Lesnak,

Really hope you get to the bottom of that issue and get your application back on track. I've had some significant hurdles in my application from medical to testing woes but having that thrown at you after surviving FSP would have topped my list! Have you given avmed a bell?
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