I hate to say it but it's common up here in the northeast to leave newbies in the cold after soloing, it's almost like the feeling you get when you pass your driving test and get your license, but all your friends can't go for a cruse with you because your a new driver. As soon as you solo, many instructors walk away and send you to the wolves, the mentallity of he can land is good enough really sucks, I've had many pilots ask me to madien a new plane because I try to teach beyond soloing, I don't 3D, and I'm not a pattern pilot by far, but I help out when I see someone struggling with learning to open up the flight envelope of her/his airplane. Between helping them learn to fly and progress to a more advanced level, and teaching them about basic maintainence and repair, tends to make them better all around pilots than the usual bank and yank rookies that earned thier wings and thier training stopped the same day.