Probably makes his money through instructors. Guys working for free on that 100hr supervision period and charges them out at $50 an hour.
Seen that a lot of times.
Nope, only pvt hire to aero club members, if the a/c was training the insurance would be a lot more than $3500. We do it for the love of flying .... just the love, no presents, no car, no holidays, just love. Oh and it's a H model, not one of them new fangled N models, hell we can't afford one of them.