There's nothing inherently wrong with a 250 hour greenhorn trying to fly anything except perhaps a tail dragger.
cavorting... surely it has been a universally known truth that 17-year-olds with only
25 hours have been able to competently handle great radial-engined 'beastie' tail-draggers? My good man, you must have encountered
some good training standards somewhere?!!
And ...Twotter, pray, what was the sport, was it cricket? A gentleman name Charles Fortune (remember him?) told me once that cricket was the oldest sport in the world and that this ditty proves it: "Father has a bat and ball, Mother has a wicket, Every night they go to bed, And play a game of Cricket"!!
Dreadfully sorry Grim_Reaper old chap, this has crept a tad, hasn't it?!!