Thanks for the response.
Goose,
One of the reasons for starting the thread was to find out just that. I am lucky enough to be able to have a lot of free time and have been managing around 27 hours a week. I don't have any kids and the girlfriend is very understanding. My only commitments I have are a dog, an hours run a day and maybe an hour or two work, but I have still found getting 6 hours in pretty taxing.
My social life is my work, and confined to weekends at the minute, so I don't study then.
It must be very difficult to hold down a full time job and family and get the required time in.
Oh yes, and as James says, the flying is basically off for the next year. That’s going to be my biggest hardship
Better get back to gyro's - joy
LF