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Dudley Henriques writes:

The only limitation or limitations that I have ever seen in my 50 odd years
in the flight instruction business that would prevent someone from becoming
a pilot would be a medical, physical, or financial limitation concerning the
person wishing to seek this goal.

That's an extremely broad range of possible obstacles.

I asked at the pilot shop today if it's true that getting even just a PPL (in
France) costs around $17,000, and this was confirmed to me. With a per capita
income of $30,100, only a handful of people in the country can ever hope to
become pilots. Add that to the need for a medical and lots of time, and
almost nobody can reach that goal.

That doesn't sound too bad - consider that in that you get 50+ hours of
*real* flying. Indeed it's what you're really paying for (the
instruction costs and other costs are relatively small by comparision).

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Duncan