Stay at home and wait for the long summer nights, take a job that finishes early in the afternoon and fly for 2-3 hours at night. Stay at home with mum and dad and cycle to the local flying club, eat baked beans and toast for the next three years.
This will work out infinately cheaper than taking a month off work, paying expenses at home while not being there, hotel rent, flights etc etc.
If you really want to save money don't do anything coz there will be no jobs for a good few years to come, so renewals and revalidations will bump up the cost. Wait til we see the green shoots of recovery before you do 'owt!