Who let this guy solo?

Gateway can be busy. Unfortunately also a lot of foreign pilots training in this area with not such a great understanding of English. Though this fellow didn’t sound nearly as bad as some.
 
Clip4 said:
Lesson learned. Any time you solo a student with a medical degree you better think twice.
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There may be a somewhat higher chance of this type of thing with professionals learning to fly. A few factors may matter:

Some are learning to fly with a specific flight in mind and just want to hurry up and be able to it. In Arizona, this can be flying to a smaller outlying town to do a clinic for a day. My CFI had one prior student that was like this. We would occasionally see him whip by us while taxiing in a hurry to get to the runway, not do a run up, and tell the tower that he would out of there quickly once they cleared him. My CFI remembered him years later and would comment about the attitude.

Such professionals are by nature fairly focused people. The type of division of attention to a number of items required for successful flying may require a shift of mindset.
 
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