I think I've decided on holding off on looking much deeper into going "career" with flying until I've taking the first actual steps of getting my PPL.

I keep reading around the forum that people are getting their PPLs for on average $10k. I think that if I can get it for about that price (preferably cheaper) I may just go ahead with it.

How does it work with getting instruction from a flight club rather than a flight school? I went to Plus One and Golden Wings (San Diego, CA) and all they had was a list of instructors. What about the groundwork, etc that I was told at the flight school i visited?

I've been browsing through pages of threads and havent been able to find out how flight clubs really work =P. I also put in a request for more info from them, but they havent gotten back to me yet...!