Get a desktop sim such as X-Plane and use it for "chair flying", the term for flight training conducted at home by yourself. I have always advocated spending somewhat heavy on things like desktop sims, peripherals, flight training videos, textbooks, posters, handheld radios, and magazines because you want to maximize what you know about flying before you start the engine on a real airplane since it is so expensive.

You can learn a lot by yourself and cut the cost if you go to your lessons knowing more or less what to expect there. I often teach students things they could have done at home for less money. Over the years desktop sims have become theoretically pretty accurate in regard to flight models, controls and instruments. While you actually need to fly a real airplane to get a good sight-picture, feeling for g-forces, sounds, and a sense of the control feedback, almost everything can be visualized at home some extent. I occasionally go to the desktop sim to study an aerodynamic principle, run through approach plate or to think about flight profiles.

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