I'm sorry if my comment about affording flying came across as arrogant. I am all in favour of cheap PFA-style flying. Some pilots who train at the standard spamcan schools somehow fail to notice that, if they are a bit strapped on the flying budget, they could fly the PFA way and incidentally learn a lot about airmanship whilst reducing their outlay, instead of settling for the occasional local bimble in the rented POS that they learned in. Even allowing for this, however, it's only ever cheap in relative terms. Sometimes we stretch ourselves financially to achieve a desired goal, whether it be going to university, getting married or purchasing pink headsets, but when it comes to keeping up a skill which becomes dangerous to use if not used frequently, dreams and aspirations may have to give way to harsh realities.
Do you remember when some plonker popped up here and moaned because his mates would not pay for passenger rides to subsidise his ATPL training? He seemed to think that he had a right to fly, because he wanted to, but on that basis I would have a right to a new DB9 every three months.