The irony is that if you want to apply for a CFI rating, you should have atleast 1000 Hrs SOLO time. After a long career in which i have close to 16000 odd hours i am sure even i am nowhere close to having 1000 hours as SOLO time. Who on earth and why will fly for 1000 hours solo???? I have tried hard but no avail.. Please do try to bring this issue to the higher officials!!