Not sure I'd agree with you completely Gertrude, most people can do a fair bit of flying for, say, £2k/pa, which is a lot easier than coming up with £6k to get your PPL in the first place.
Er, no.
The point is that the £6k is a one-off capital cost, you can add that to your mortgage and just have to pay a few hundred a year. That's a fraction of the £2k you estimate (quite reasonable) it'll cost to keep flying after getting the licence. You need more income to keep flying than to get the licence, tick the box, and move on to something else.
airfield like EMA where they have ATC and jets which appear to take priority
- come to Cambridge then, where they have ATC and jets but where it\'s far from unknown for the jet to be kept waiting for the student in a 152!