Yes, 40 hours and ( world Traveler ) 5,000 nautical miles on the same day. The first time was real world 1982. That, how ever required 77 hours before I got around to the check ride. I shure was glad to get that over with! I know a lot of you people are way ahead of me. I am just having way to much fun. I still have not flown a job yet, so still have lots to do. FLIGHT still has the most realistc feeling of the actual sensation of flight of any simulator I have ever tried, and that is most of them. I really love the RV6-A, that is what I fly most of the time.

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77 hrs huh? YIKES! i remember when i hit about 37 hours and i asked my instructor if we could go practice for my check ride at 40 hrs....thats when he told me "you don't expect to get your license at 40 hrs do you? most people take at least 50 hrs, many people take many many more, 60-70 hrs plus".....of course i freaked out and insisted that i feel i'm ready...he laughed and we went out and practiced some....i left for my check ride at 41hrs....came back from it as a private pilot at 43 hours....so i was 3 hours over what i planned, but damn it, i did it way sooner than i 'suddenly' thought it might take.

I did a lot of solo cross country flights and had trouble getting my long solo cross country schedualed due to time and weather. Lake Geneva Wisconson to Dubuque Iowa to Oshkosh Wisconson and back to Lake Geneva. But it was a lot of fun, ended up in the rain at 1,000 feet in that little C-150 on the way back. Some thing that you just don't ever forget, right!