in Ca you have to have 2000 hours/ 2 years before you can apply for the license. It sucks but it will be worth it. Just to get my falconers license it took 2 years and like 2000 hours, then i had to take the test, which by the way you can only take twice... in your life so you cant screw it up but again it was totally worth it.
this is my owl "Yue" it means moon