My first 'logged' hour was during my Flying Scholarship in July 1995. By 1999, I had done 120hrs, of which just 18 was P1.
Then there was a gap of two years between flying (apart from a brief forray into paragliding, which quite franckly scared the willies out of me)...
And last August I jumped back into the cockpit again to do my PPL. In the following 12 months I managed 60hours, 50 of which were P1, thanks to the purchase of a share in the 'other woman'
I am now just an hour away from 100hrs P1.
Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will thinnk I know it all.