[BorisMelnik]

Time and money. I took many classes and it is basically going to take up a ton of your weekends. Depending on where you live it might be way more than this. I am lucky enough to have lived near a private airport where I knew a few people that owned planes and had one for rent.

It is also a very monotonous process. You basically learn by riding along, doing very small tasks one by one and by the end of your training you are basically flying.

Getting instrument rating is a totally different ballgame. I witnessed a plane wreck so I backed out after things got pretty surreal.