It really must be frustrating to wanna learn the pipes and have no available instructor.

Unfortunately, it's one instrument that requires one-on-one teaching. I've heard plenty of self-taught pipers and w/o even asking it's blatantly obvious they've had no instructor. Ya gotta have a tutor telling you what you're doing improperly and when you get it right.

There are audio/visual training aids, but they're supplemental. There are a number of instructors who teach via streaming video. I've heard mostly good and some bad. That may be worthwhile, though I can't recommend anyone in particular.

There's an old Asian axiom... "When the student is ready, the master will appear".

Slainte,
steve