Some questions:
1) How many hours did he have previously?
2) How many hours did he receive from you ground/flight/simulated/solo?
3) What was his total dollar outlay?
And finally: Congratulations on helping him pass the first time!
1) We started with him at about 280 hours total tie, and he came to me with 5.5 hours of hood time previously. However, he's been flying since before I was born (literally), and before I knew what a piston was was about the last time he had hood time. He had done very little flying for the past year, and we did it in the plane he doesn't usually fly.
2) He didn't do any solo hours. The idea with this course is that rather than going and flying with a safety pilot, you spend all your flying time with the instructor. That's how I did my IR and I think it leads to a better overall learning experience. We ended up doing about 40 hours of flight, and probably 50 of ground. There was a pretty significant briefing every day, as well as going over various concepts, considerations, etc. associated with the IR.
3) Well, came out to around 45 hours or so of the plane (this will vary depending on your plane), and 11 days of my time ($3300). Since he's based where I live, I didn't need to travel and thus he didn't have the travel expenses. Really, it's hard to do it much cheaper.
The DPE and I had a good debrief. He made a few mistakes, just like you'd expect any new instrument pilot (or any pilot) to make. He and I will have a few follow-up flights, and I've made suggestions to him for how to proceed and start putting his rating to work. The main suggestion is that he start filing when he flies, and have the first few flights be good VFR days where he has the easy out ("Cancel IFR") and just get used to doing this stuff on his own.
Come up here with your Aztruck and give me my MEI add on.
In return I'll let you stay in my house for free and feed you. Let's see, accommodations in the center of Denali Park, all inclusive, generally run north of $300/day. Ok I'll buy the juice too and throw in free nature walks.
That thing burns mogas right?
If you buy the plane off me I'll throw in a free multi rating (you pay for fuel), and then I don't care what you put in it.