@Heli Boy - Great comment. GA is so expensive it is hard to justify with college and retirement to save for. LSA was supposed to be the savior but even those prices have climbed and a nice new wet LSA rents for over $100/hr in my area.
There are two costs associated with flying - dollars and time. For me the dollars are manageable but the time is not. I feel that to stay safe I need to commit 2-3 hours per week of study on top of the time associated with any particular flight. As a VFR pilot, the times that are available for me to fly are not unlimited, so that both the window for flying as well as the hours required are significant.
With two children in the house, I am not willing to trade off my time with them for flying. Hopefully when they are older I can bring it all together, but for now the time is the cost I cannot afford.
