dlevanchuk

Did my first solo today! Congrats to me!

So, after 2 months of eating top romen, and drinking hot water, I'm half way completed to go for PL.

From your experience, how many hours of x-country will a person need to learn all the ground reference manouvers, and navigation?

Just trying to figure out how much more thousands of dollars I need till PL.

usmc-sgt

You are kind of talking about two seperate things.

1. Cross country is a flight from point to point of over 50 nautical miles. Of this you will need 5 hours solo with one xc at least 150 miles with one leg being at least 50 miles, you will also need 3 hours of dual xc with an instructor.

so.... you will need at a minimum 8 hours of xc time

2. what I think you are talking about is training towards the pts standards for your basic maneuvers. This varies by student. I find that after your cross country phase you will still need a few hours solo to meet the required 5 hours (not counting the 5 with xc) and you can use those few hours to work on your maneuvers. You will also have a few finish up flights with your cfi to polish them off. I find that with my students that by the time they are doing solo xc they are at PTS standards for the maneuvers so after the solo xcs they are typically taking their checkrides in under 10 hours easily.

dlevanchuk

So my plan for now is to fly 5 hours of solo (in a pattern do touch and goes or whatever i want).

While I am doing my solo flights, on other days do 8 hours of xc with instructor.

By the time I'm done with my xc i'll be done with my 5 hrs of solo, and will do 150mi xc solo at the end.

then some touches to clean up the whole thing, and schedule a check ride...

Does this sound like the right path?

Spartan07

Depending on your proficiency in the maneuvers you should keep on top of all the maneuvers you may be required to demonstrate for the PPL (Slow flight, Stalls, Ground reference maneuvers, Simulated engine failures, and of course the myriad of different landings).

-My- personal opinion would be to do a little more than just touch and go's, but most of the other maneuvers are pretty simple once you get them down pat so I could see why you might want to practice landing a bit more.

Again - Just my $.02, one student to another

dlevanchuk

I'm just trying to see how much more money do I need to spend until i'll get PPL

Thanks!