18 months and about 75 hours. Sounds like a lot doesn't it?
My PVT checkride was first scheduled on 9/12/01. Needless to say it didn't happen. I did my training at an airport under class B airspace so I couldn't fly for about 3 months while they figured out that it wasn't a Tampico that rammed the buildings. By the time I got back in the airplane it took about 10 hours to get back up to speed.