A Lieberman wrote in message ...
Yossarian wrote:

How did you go through all your training without ever stopping at a
controlled airport?

Hi Yossarian,

All my training at controlled airports were touch and goes. My first
"full stop" was after I got my pilot's license. The reason I put this
in, was that I had to ask for progressive taxi instructions.

Allen

well, i guess it's too late to yank your ticket now :-), but you
didn't
really meet all the requirements for private if the above is true:

61.109
(a) For an airplane single-engine rating....
(5) 10 hours of solo flight time in a single-engine airplane,
consisting of at least --
(iii) Three takeoffs and three landings to a full stop (with each
landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with
an operating control tower.

that's from the online fars

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/c...4cfr61_00.html

which you may argue are newer than 2001. however, i have a '97
printed
copy in front of my which has the same paragraph except for the
parenthetical
phrase, meaning "full stop" was in as far back as '97. (my memory
tells me it
was in a lot longer ago than that, but i don't have an older copy to
substantiate
that.)


not being critical (really, your cfi was to blame for sending you up
with
this deficiency, not you), but that's probably why yossarian asked.

mho,

g_a