you're not a noob anymore when you can:
1. raise and lower landing gear and flaps without asking how to do it.
2. start and stop engine without asking
3. when you think ho'ing isn't cool but rather infantile and shows that the other guy is too chicken to fight you fairly
4. when you much prefer a 6 o'clock shot to any other shot
5. when you can land without bouncing your teeth out of you mouth or ripping off the wings, landing gear, and propeller.
6. when you feel that you don't need to join the 4 on 1 gang, and want give that single pilot a half a chance.
7. when you give a guy a pilot wound, engine oil hit, take out a flap, a elevator, an aileron and half a wing and don't have the need to finish him off but rather let him try to land it.
8. fly something other then a spit 16 because its more of a challenge then the easy mode plane.
9. survive a 1 on 1 with some dude named N72.
10. you can understand why Jaeger1 kills don't count