Get a job and save money? Saving anything up to 60k could take a very long time. Even if you did save that money then the age you are likely to be by then will mean for many life would have taken its course, resulting in many people having houses and families to run and support. How on earth are people expected to upsticks and start training then? What you suggests Dartagnan is not practical whatsoever. It will only lead to a shortage of pilots in the future. The scaremongering and negativity on the website is absolutely shocking at times. People should be encouraging others not making riduculous unsubstantiated statements. This is hardly the first credit crunch in the history of time is it!