SFIM, what do you regard as "high experience"
Mr TipCap, the previous poster to me started "wittering" about how the PPL course is 45 hours.
I was just making the point that this particular pilot was not in that category.
I have seen some PPL's who have better flying skills and airmanship (TEM) than many CPL's and ATPL's i have seen, but mostly as you would expect the reverse is true.
As for your question it's subjective but anything in the 000's clearly is going to be more effective than 45(47) hours !