aptar,
In fact, I also fly a Topflite Cessna and an Ultra Stick. At the field I fly at, I'm not alone when I decide not to risk planes I have more time and/or money in. But my point was, while some trainers fly better, if one crash sidelines a newbie until he can put all the splinters back together or buy another plane, how does that make them better trainers? Even when there's great flying conditions, I always have a little anxiety when it's a plane I worked on all winter. IMO the Duraplane is a good trainer because its survivability removes some of that anxiety and lets a new pilot concentrate on flying instead of not crashing.