RE: I retired the trainer.
Sorry you had to retire your trainer. Hopefully you can recomission her at some later date. I had mine at the field the other day to help a new flyer get in the air. After the lesson I took her up just to get some relaxing flying in. A couple of electric flyers were doing some 3D stuff over the runway so I took my plane "way up" and just floated about at just above idle. Just like flying a kite!!! Brought her down after 25 minutes of very relaxed flying from a lawn chair.