Originally Posted by Timbo

Get 3 of you buddies together, rent a 172 for ROAD TRIP to Las Vegas!

Do this every Friday night, for about two months.

Make them pay for the airplane, or at least split it 4 ways.

That's how I paid for my cross country hours when I was 18 in college, but instead of Las Vegas, it was for an overnight to an all girls college to visit my girlfriend, so I pimped out her girlfriends, and I never had trouble filling the airplane with willing participants.