Originally Posted by ejericson

I have a student in his early forties, retired army who always wanted to fly. Now that he has the funding he has decided to change careers and wants to be a bush pilot in alaska. We are pushing 45 hours and no solo and no chance of it. he simply is not safe but WILL NOT give up. i admire his attitude and persistence he tries very hard and studies very hard but simply does not retain information well and again the physical part is not coming to him. Has anyone come across anything similar and how do you go about it? What legal right do i have to stop his training other than not signing him off to solo? The VA has come down on frivolous use of flight training funds and may possible put a limit of some kind in the near future and i dont want him running out of educational benefits with no useful skills to speak of...