"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
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Well, not exactly. You see, at the start of the lesson in question, I
received some dual instruction for an undetermined length of time, then I
soloed for .3 hours, then I received some more dual instruction flying
back
to the home airport. Before the lesson I had 11.3 hours, and after it I
had
12.5 hours. That's why I don't know exactly how many hours I had prior to
solo.

If you don't provide accurate information, you don't get accurate answers.

As for your "undetermined length of time", I guess that's your own fault for
not logging the time. But the rest of us actually keep track of time, and
know when things start and stop.

I don't see how you could know you flew solo for 0.3 hours without knowing
the time at which you started your solo flight and the time at which you
ended it. And if you know when you started your solo flight, you ought to
be able to know when you ended the dual instruction prior to it. But I
guess if you don't know, you just don't know.

The answer to your question regarding how the rest of us know is that we
actually bothered to pay attention. We kept track of the time. In many
cases, the solo flight was done at the home base airport, and after the last
solo landing, the student simply taxied back to parking. So obviously in
that very common case, it would be trivial for someone who knows how much
solo time they had to also know how much dual instruction they had prior.

Bottom line: you say "I'd like to give an accurate answer". The problem in
your case is that you didn't track your time well enough to give an accurate
answer. I don't see how you can resolve the issue now. You have a
fundamental lack of information necessary to do what you want to do, and
unless you figure out a way to recover that information from other sources,
there's nothing you can do about it. Certainly none of us have any way to
figure it out for you.

Pete