How many dual X-Countries until "Proficient"

[Owad1971]

Good afternoon All- I am currently in the x-country phase of training and was curious to know how many trips did it take until your instructor felt you were proficient enough to get a solo x-country sign-off. I am curious and wanted to get a handle on budgeting for what appears to be an expensive portion of training. What should I look for in my own development?

Are there any obvious signs that will tell ME (and not my instructor) that I am definitely not ready? I fly once per week and when I am not eating, sleeping, or toileting I am doing something aviation retated- Ok that is a stretch, but I do spend at least 2-3 hrs each day during the week planing, studying, reading articles, watching training videos....etc. I am doing my best to manage the "get there-itis" but can't help feeling I am not doing enough:lol:

Thoughts Gang?

 

[Jim Logajan]

I looked in my logbook. My CFI and I did one day XC, my night XC then I did my first solo XC. 7.6 of my 10.1 solo time was XC.

Looking for my students I only did a day and night with each of them.

But they weren't the typical lets go 51nm XC either. They were hundreds of miles, and I threw everything at them.

I had 4 dual XC before my first solo XC, but each one trained something new and the hours applied to other requirements:

2.7 hours: XC using pilotage/dead reckoning. 77S KUAO 7S5 77S
3.4 hours: XC using VORs. 77S 17S S48 77S
2.8 hours: XC at night. 77S KLSE KEUG 77S
2.9 hours: XC using VOR under the hood. 77S KOTH KRBG 77S

My two solo XCs added up to 6.3 hours. In my opinion it is more than OK for solo XC flights to exceed the FAA requirements.