Button push'
I would agree with all that. Unfortunately the over regulated, stuffed shirt, head up their ass UK would never recognise any amount of flying, training or not, in Daddies Piper cub. The only thing recognised here is an official training establishment.
I went solo in a T21 glider in 1956. Excercise 14 (first solo, there can only be one of those?) I then went solo in another T21 in 1983, excercise 14 (2)
Next in a Cessna 152 1986, excercise 14 (3). Finally in another 152 in 2006 excercise 14 (4).
You cannot buck the system. Give in, go with the flow, sod them all!
It's less painful than banging your head on the wall.
If I had told an instructor I had done this before, I would be treated as a jumped up know it all.
I tried once, never again!