I figured the instructor who did my solo check this weekend had some reasonable flying experience (looking in his mid sixties), so I asked him: Dick, how many hours to your name? His reply was, you are only as good as your last hour, but prior to this one 28 000 hrs

Ex SAAF, Ex SAA ex, ex, ex.
After six average cross-wind touch and go's in real lousy weather we did a landing, he looked at me and said: time for me to get out
