Get off my lawn, haha!!!

Ok, seriousness now. I’ll be more blunt than Tired Soul. Don’t waste your time nor money if you can only commit to fly once a week. Here’s why. As stated, 70-80 hours is not only common for a lot of folks, but those that are flying 2-3 times a week. At least in the beginning, lessons will be around 1 hour. So, you’ll get 52 hours in one year (IF nothing gets canceled due to weather, mechanical issues or other scheduling conflict). So you’ve just spent an entire year and most likely won’t even be close to finishing.

I like the idea to have cash in hand for at least, your first 25 hours of both flight and ground time. I will disagree on the need to fly twice each on your days off, but at a minimum you should be flying once each on your days off. To be efficient, my opinion is a student needs to fly 2-3 times a week minimum. To give you a time frame, that’s what I did (while working 40+/week) and took me 5 months.

Best of luck.