I agree absolutely.

It's enough to have to learn how to fly, let alone learn how to handle something else that is trying to fight your commands at the same time. You have to learn to control the plane in the end, and it's not beyond even a learner, so it's a good idea to start to learn the right things at the outset.

All that's been said about mid wings being flyable etc is true, however, it seems a shame that all that technology and thought has gone into what we now call a trainer, for it to be discarded offhand.

I remember the times when there was no such thing as a trainer. You had to fly a high wing plane because that's all the technology could handle. It was the 'entry level' that every radio pilot had to learn as non-proportional systems could not handle the complexity of flight of a high performance aircraft.

They still managed to have aerobatic championships though!

Why fight the evolution. Why not use it?

-David C.