"Five hours under the hood"
Five hours!!!
Some consider this sufficient for what, exactly? A CPL in the USA? Bejasus! God help anyone who falls into the hands of a skygod with that sort of "qualification" and thinks he can use it! It barely equips him to undergo a type rating and IR to fly as P2 IMC with a real pilot. Even as such he'd be a liability for some time.
5 hrs, Isn't that about what a UK PPL gets - in order to teach him never to go near IMC and, with luck, survive it if he gets out of it pdq?