TOday i finaly got to fly my alpha trainer it was great. i flew with one of the best trainers at my local club. he had me doing figure eights and practicing the decent for landings. he said that i was doing great.[ he was going to let me land but the plane dead sticked so he landed it. My question is tho what is the averave time from the first flight wiht a buddy box to the first solo flight. also i did fly the real flight g2 sim for about 6 months.

thanks for the info

Average time is difficult to predict. It can take anywhere from one or two flights to a couple hundred.

Don't worry about how quickly you can solo. Spend the time to learn everything that instructor can teach you. Ask him to teach you the proper use of rudder, and how to land the plane in a crosswind. (Crabbing or slipping.)

It's stuff you'll use and may prevent a crash. It's also stuff that's hard to learn on your own.
Dennis-

Ditto.

My quickest student soloed his first day.

Another time, I was asked to buddy box a guy that had been trying for 3 years, and I couldn't give him the sticks for more than 30 seconds.

So there's really no "Average" time. But seeing as how you are off to such a good start, and you live in a moderate climate, you could potentially solo before the year is out, maybe in just a week or two, but don't push it.

You will know when you are ready.

It took me about 5 hours over a period of 3 months to learn, but because I run a hobby shop, I couldn't nearly get out as much as I should. If I could've, I am quite certain I would've soloed much, much sooner. I have seen my instructor let everyone of his students takeoff and land on their very first lesson and most never even touched a RC transmiter before, including simulators. Most learn to fly very smoothly and seldom crash thereafter on a average of 4 hours or 8 half hour flights.

What I am saying is IMHO, it's more due to the instructor than the student as to how quickly the student learns. My instructor hands the tx to anyone, gives on the average 5 minutes of hands-on instruction and steps back and lets the student fly (no buddy-box). Occasionaly, he will give a word or two of advice, but never has to take back the transmitter. Finally, my distributors (Great Planes, Horizon, etc.) have taken serious notice of what we can do for them, i.e., offer the public a fly before you buy service and give transition instruction from trainers to more advanced aircraft immediately.
Meaning that anyone with very little sticktime on a trainer will be able to fly almost any low wing or bipeplane that we carry, just for the experience.

Joe Bartholomew
Lighthouse Hobbies
1560 Lockport St.
Olcott, NY 14126
1-176-778-0471

I remember soloing with a Sig Kadet in 12 flights. It was more of floating than flying. Crashed it the next spring though.

see i totally feel like i could solo now. i really wanted to solo my first day. but the thing is i dont want to get to cocky and crash my plane. all my movements are slow and precicse. i am not jerky with the sticks at all.
but i think i will fly with him for a few more hours then try to solo with him there. do you think that practicing dead stick with the trainer at the club is a good thing??

I was training on a mid winged plane a while ago. Id say 16 months ago, and maybe had about 8 or 10 flights under it before I tried flying a Cub. Engine was too weak or something, but nonetheless, it stalled on takeoff, got totaled and never flew since. Just havent had the time.