Why the hell is flying so darn expensive ££££££££££££££££££
There are other ways as Backpacker says, and if you still want to go the PPL route, have a look at group membership on PFA (LAA) types, a search on group flying will throw up lots of threads, ours costs £90/month with flying at about £30/hour for a 5 member group, find a maximum number group (20) and you can actually have quite cheap flying with a share as low as £600 (even lower on a single seater, but not many 20 share groups on these) and flying at around £50/hour or less.
