I agree wholeheartedly with these worthy gentlemen - what you need at your age (when you have the luxury of not being in a hurry - because you can't be) is to try and gain real flying experience, not just hours. The "cadet" section of a gliding club is almost certainly the best place to get that.
An esteemed colleague of mine, a very long term feature at Lasham, was on an airliner a little while ago. She asked politely if she could have a cockpit visit - it turned out that as a gliding instructor she had given the captain his first flying lesson (about 30 years before I think), who invited her to stay in the cockpit for the remainder of the flight.
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