I have been flying now for a while and enjoy it so much I want to help others do the same. My first student, a freind and coworker, has soloed as of Saturday and I'm not sure who was more excited/proud. We spent several weeks going over ground proceedures and safety also getting him properly equiped within his budjet waiting for us both to have time for a flight. Well his extensive simulator experience made my job easy. I had him on the buddy box and took off, trimmed, showed him the pattern and he took it from there. I did not have to take over until it was time to land. After I showed him how to line up for an aproach and do a slow fly by he coppied my modified pattern with a little coaching to keep from flying towards the pilot stations and remain inline with the runway. I then took over and showed him what his plane looks like landing... ONCE! The next flight he took off flew the pattern I talked him through a basic loop, aileron rolls and rudder/aileron coupled turns and after that he landed it. I just stood there holding the trainer switch. The next flight he did it all on his own without a buddy box. This is all in one day! About 5 hours of feild time. Well I do not want to short change my first student and we have discussed that we still have more work to do. I plan on showing him inverted flight, stall turns, outside loops, as well as other manouvers I don't even remember their names. So my question is what else do I need to cover before I say "he is trained".