Poll: How Many Hours for PPL?

[flytime]

How many hours did it take you to solo, and how many to license? Give us the year you earned it as well, because I suspect the hours to earn a PPL have gone up over the years.

For me, 14 hours to solo and 46 total (not including the checkride). Training took 11 months and I earned it earlier this year.

 

[Jim Logajan]

I soloed in -3.14159i hours and got my PPL with 1.414 - 3.14159i hours. It was a complex undertaking.

 

[Jim Logajan]

I counted 29 posts that contained an answer to the question posed in the thread subject line.[1]

The average time to a passed check ride for the samples was 67.9 hours. Standard deviation was 59.5 hours.(!)

There were three posts with 100 or more hours listed (100, 300, and 250) and when I removed those the average was 50.7 hours with a standard deviation of 11.7.

Since the FAA says the average is actually around 75 hours[2] the poll does indeed suffer very strongly from self-selection bias.

[1] 46 100 41.7 41.2 52 64 57.5 78 42.5 46 42 62 69 40 40 36 58 52 300 56 40 40 72 44 42 250 65 43 48

[2] http://www.faa.gov/pilots/become/deaf_pilot/training/