I have 10hrs flight time for my PPL so far. I do all the groundschool/bookwork myself which really isn't that difficult. I'm training 1hr/wk, but I'm going to start 2-3hrs/wk pretty soon here. My first Solo is coming up in the next few weeks...
I'm currently paying $90/1hr lesson which includes pre/post flight one-on-one Q&A for pretty much as long as I want. Broken down, it's $65/hr (wet) for the C152-II, and $25/hr for my Instructor.
My Instructor is a retired military and corporate pilot with over 10k hours, so I feel real comfortable with him. I'm also lucky that I only live 5min from the airport I train at (ORE).
To answer the original question, yes, I too am broke...
