but I am pretty confident that I could reach a reasonable level of competence in under 20 hours!
I thought that before I had sat in a light acrft. I thought I was going to be a natural. How wrong can you be? I drove home from the airfield many times after ballsing up a simple exercise and was convinced I wouldn't make a pilot. However, that was 36 years ago and 2500 hours of flying around in Light Aircraft since and now glad I stuck with it.