elenasgrumpy,
Actually, as just an airplane I think it's a pretty good trainer. It's got some good flight characteristics that I like about it and I think that students will do great on it as long as they take all the gadgets off of it. Now as a product being sold, no I don't like it. As said above, most instructors will take that stuff off it before they teach the student. If that is the case then why in the world would a student want to pay about $100 extra when they aren't going to be using those things??? If the student finds an instructor before they buy the plane it's no problem because the instructor will advise the student on what to buy. But what happens most of the time is that the student buys the plane and then finds an instructor. And then the instructor takes those things off, and usually the student is hurt because here is this guy taking all this "stuff" off of his beautiful plane. Looking at it in that light, no I don't like the plane. Like I said, all that stuff is just a sales gimmick.

But as far as the plane flies, I think it's really a pretty good trainer.

Ken