ORIGINAL: hogflyer
gaRCfield,
There is nothing wrong with an Avistar and its capability. I regularly show my student early on in their flight training the performance capability of their trainers – be it a NextStar, Alpha 40/60, Sky Raider Mach I, etc, and they are very surprised when they see how much capability their plane has.
Recently a pilot told me that they shouldn't have purchased a Nexstar because it can't do any aerobatics. I said nothing. The next time I took him up for training I did some rolling circles before giving him the airplane. That shut him up.
Trainers will do quite a bit. They don't do it as precisely as possible, but they will do it.