bikz,

I'm not sure why you feel you need everyone's thoughts, here. Are you instructing? Are you planning on becoming an instructor? It might help to know what you intend to do with the results of this survey.

If you are instructing now.... please let us know the results of this experiment.

If you are planning on doing instruction, are you planning on selecting only students with 3D intent? Or are you planning on making the recommendation across all disciplines?

It seems to me that a student who is intereted in scale warbirds and has no intent on doing 3D would be saddled with an unlikely trainer, and later with an unwanted 3D plane.

It seems to me that a student interested in gliders or slope soaring would be saddled with an overpowered, oversensitive trainer, later unused for any purpose.

I do instruction, and have found the conventional trainer useful to everyone, so far, including one student who moved on to 3D, and a current student who plans on electric power glider fun later on.