mazzy
can perfectly understand where you're coming from.
I got to the same stage where it's painful not to fly, and even more painful to fly (financially) and you're pretty much stuck in the middle.
Buying shares doesn't solve the problem if you're skint lol
It makes you spend less
per hour, if you fly a lot of hours, but it doesn't make you spend LESS !
I have given myself 3 options :
1. bite the bullet all the way : get into debt and go commercial and join the club of unemployed pilots until the day one gets paid for flying
2. get a better paid job
3. consider microlights for the time being
At the moment I'm working on options 2 and 3.
Hopefully once 2 is sorted, it might even help with option 1 !