I just cant believe this 80k figure, lets put things in perspective here!
My route(Modular):-
1.PPL cost - £3000
2.Hour build - cost me pretty much diddly squat thanks to getting tuggy position with local gliding club. Paid for the odd hour's rental here and there from a couple of places but not much more than £2000 tops.
3.ATPL's + exam fee's - £3500
4. I start my ME/IR followed by CPL in 2 weeks time. Im budgeting for 20k, including test fee's etc and might even manage to squeeze the MCC out of it aswell(I could probably do it cheaper than the 20k if I went overseas)
I make that a gand total of around £28500!!
I could probably treat myself to 2 or 3 of the finest all singing all dancing Boeing and Airbus type ratings and STILL not have spent 80k!!