Maiden Voyage: Let me also say this. I don't know where you live but a low wing trainer is an excellent plane to take out for a first flight of the day. If you crash the thing after you have a couple other planes, who cares. Another thing you could do with a plane such as that in the long run is put floats on it for at the lake or skies in the winter. A plane that you can not care about is a good thing and if your wife is getting into it as well, it might be the better idea to have a couple of easier to fly aircraft around, as one of you may make a mistake. I probably won't every buy a low wing trainer but I will build a scale Cessna one of these days, just to put floats on it. The hobby is what you want and what you make it. Above all else, have fun, and if you want to take the long road, so be it, it is, afterall, your road.