pponting,
I wasted about £130 per month just smoking (I quit 1st Jan 05), just enough to cover an hour in a trainer including a few touch and goes, yet no one ever tutted at me and said, sheesh, your parents must be rolling in it for you to be a smoker, but hey, I only did a lesson per month so any smoker out there could get a PPL.
EXTREMELY good point.
I heard of a teenager who was hooked on helicopters. So he got a part time job stacking shelves in a supermarket, and managed to pay for one lesson a fortnight. He hoped to have his PPL(H) in two years, then go comercial, at a very young age.
But of course, when he does, there will be those who say he only managed it because of rich parents.
