A lot of flight schools in MN went out of business in the last several years, 9-11 hit civil aviation hard. I have a private and am half way to my commercial license, I have not been making much progress lately- I lost interest for several years after flying became inconvenient for me. Hope to log a lot of hours in 2008. I would love to finish my commercial license just to say I did it, but I have no desire to work as a commercial pilot, so I don't have much incentive, it's not cheap...