Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

[Judy Perry]

The difference is that,  in flight school, the person has a dedicated 8 to
whatever hours of instruction.

With a software download, well, there's the telephone, starting another
load of laundry, kids beating one another and thus requiring
intervention...

Judy

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mark Brownell wrote:

> If you think just ten hours is not enough consider this. There are two
> schools for pilot training. In the less expensive, less structured
> version the instructor evaluates the student to consider the student
> ready to solo. There is an allowable window of eight to sixteen hours
> of actual instructed flying/training where the instructor determines
> when or if ever the student is allowed to solo. If you can turn
> excellent students loose in an airplane with just eight hours flight
> training then ten hours might be a pretty good window into DreamCard.
> Anyway, what's to stop them from getting the thirty day demo version of
> Rev after that.