Amber,
I'm another female student. I have been training for four years and have 152 hours of which 5 are solo. I finally passed all my ground exams in March. I have had many ups and downs, many thoughts of giving up, but have stuck with it? Why, its a childhood ambition and deep down, despite everything, I love flying and have the resolve to carry on.
It is this resolve that is driving me on to conquer my solo flying nerves, so much so that I flew my first solo nav last week and plan to fly part of my QXC route dual, with flying the third leg solo....at the end of this week....
It took me 27 hours to go solo and is frankly taking me ages to grasp many techniques that others may have found simpler. So, my advice is, if you really want to do it, stick with it. it doesn't matter how long you take, its not a race. As long as you WANT to do it, ENJOY it and the exchequer allows...then go for it!
