He might have. I got my PPL with a navy buddy (who was in a deploying squadron and at sea a lot), who had gotten his CFI for fun. We were both doing it more for fun than anything else. Once I got my solo, he just kept signing me off and I was happy to buzz around by myself. Won't say how long that went on for but it was a good while. Eventually I wanted to take my GF somewhere for the weekend so we finished it up.

"Life getting the way, running out of money, etc."

I thought one would read between the lines there. The point being that trying to do it once a week and not having more money and flying more often is really not the way to go.

I don't assume, guess, or speculate. If you want to say something, say it.

You didn't fly once a week for 23 years; insinuating otherwise, or even introducing your case to demonstrate that flying once a week won't cut it, is irrelevant. It would be relevant if over those 23 years, you'd flown once a week, every week, and still couldn't complete your private pilot certificate.

Lack of money prevented you from completing your training sooner. Life getting in the way prevented you from completing your training sooner. Flying once a week didn't prevent you from finishing your training.

In fact, one might suggest that failure to fly at least once a week ultimately resulted in it taking 23 years...failure to keep training. Whether it was due to lack of funds, family requirements, demands of the job, or whatever, those are what prevented you from finishing your pilot certificate training for the duration of 23 years. It was not limiting flying to once a week that set completion of your training back 23 years.

For every helpful post you make, you always have to post one reminding us all what a condescending windbag you are.

At least ONE.