Best of luck Luke. I was in a fairly similar situation. Started my training aged 16 in June 2011, passed my test in November this year with 46 hours. It is generally true, however, that if you space out your lessons, it will take you longer and cost more to do, I guess I was just lucky. My personal advice to you would be to, if you can, just save those £145 flights until you have either a) enough to finish your training, or b) do most of your training. This sucks in the short term, but will probably save you money in the long run. In the meantime, as has been suggested, get some gliding time as it's not that expensive, keeps you in the air, and will make you a better pilot. Also, if you join a gliding club that uses a tug instead of a winch, you may be able to go up in the tug a few times. You're not flying for long, but it's really interesting.
