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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Agreed, but the article did expressly point out that she was required to have an instructor or a safety pilot, and that she was not actually qualified to solo in that aircraft.

I have a private license. I am certainly not "more than capable of flying solo" in a Cessna 150: I am rated to fly hot air balloons. I am reasonably confident I could get a Cessna 150 on the ground safely, but that confidence alone does not make me "more than capable" of doing so.

And it’s probably the type she got her license in.

Based on the claims in the article, that is very unlikely. If she got her private license in it, she would be qualified to solo. But they explicitly claimed that she was not. It is likely that she is qualified in some other single-engine fixed-wing aircraft and just needs to be checked out in the 150. But the article does not specify, and we should not assume.

If Argentina's licensing structure mirrors the US, she might have a private license in "weight-shift-control aircraft". She might be qualified to hang glide with a passenger, but that license would not make her "more than capable" of soloing in a 150.