perhaps this is not right on topic, but i will offer these comments.

friends of mine tell me that if you want someone in the right seat that there is no shortage of people who will do it for nothing so they can log the time.

in ~ 1946, a friend and me would ride our bikes about 10 mi's to a grass strip. we could get a half hour flight/instruction for $3. $6 for an hour. they only charged for the plane time. it was really a lot of fun [except coming up with the $3] there were wires at the end of the usual approach to the short field & he taught us to side slip in.