A man can dream
Just supposing a new but sensible PPL (say 60 hours on C150 or PA28) aspired to owning and flying a Spitfire.
If money wasn't an obstacle, but they didn't really want to spend more than necessary what would be the best way to proceed?
My thoughts as a low time PPL with no chance of ever flying anything more Spitfire like than a Chipmunk are as follows.
Get 100+ hours tailwheel with plenty of circuits to practice take off and landings.
While doing this get some experience with variable pitch prop and retractable undercarriage, and an aerobatics course or two on a reasonably powerfull tailwheel type.
Then learn to solo a Harvard, then to do the same from the backseat.
This would add up to maybe 300 hours total time, which seems a bit thin considering 19 year olds in wartime were expected to take around 250.
Any thoughts?