I think the best post on this well beaten subject was posted by Pilot Pete a few months back. I will see can I find it and link it here.
Pete......If you have a link, post it again. It displayed the rough with the even rougher road to the LHS. If you could do what PP did, then you will make it.....in fact you would probably make it into NASA!!!! It was an inspirational read.
Ncusack
Found it:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...&threadid=6911
It'll take a while but it's a cracker!
Ncusack