in article , Wizard of
Draws at wrote on 4/2/04 5:16 PM:

On 4/2/04 9:39 AM, in article %Webc.165213$po.972319@attbi_s52, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Congrats. It's fun to watch the hours tick off, over the years.

I remember when I was a student, and there was an instrument student at my
FBO that had (*gasp!*) TWO HUNDRED HOURS.

I thought he was God himself.

Now, with 800-some hours, and growing about 100 per year, I realize how
little he knew, and how REALLY little I knew.

In fact, I'm sometimes amazed that they let any of us fly at all, with just
40-something hours on the clock...

;-)

I look back and wonder how my instructor could have let me solo at 12 hours.
Signing off a student to solo or take a checkride, have to be some of the
scariest moments in aviation.

This brings up a question I have regarding the tabulation of hours. Looking
at my logbook, I had 11.3 hours prior to the lesson in which I first soloed.
The lesson itself lasted a total of 1.2 hours, of which .3 was solo,
sandwiched in between some dual.

Okay, so did I solo at 11.3 hours, or did I solo at 12.5 hours?