Originally Posted by
Engineer Pilot
I am now flying solo and feel confident doing private pilot maneuvers (steep turns, slow flight, stalls, turns around a point, s-turns, crosswind landings, shorts and softs, VOR nav). I am now waiting for my intsurctor to give me x-country training and night training. What can i do until this time? Do I continue to get better at these maneuvers?
Even if you can't quickly schedule the next steps in your training, you still need to keep flying and practicing the manuevers so you don't forget them. I did a lot of that when I was a student pilot because I was pretty busy and my CFI was navy pilot who had to go to sea a lot, so it was hard to coordinate our schedules. Took me three years and 80+ hours, most of which was just me buzzing around the local area solo.