Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
When a school only allows four of their aircraft to be used for solo flights, and most "solo" flights are done with the instructor on board ("supervised solo"), it doesn't speak particularly well to the confidence of the school.
I hadn’t heard of supervised solos...wow. It sounds like preventing more hull losses, and possibly making sure they actually do what they are meant to. I remember that students on solos would go fly circles over wickenburg on their “long XC”, and another instance of them running the tach out on the ground.