I went from a high wing trainer to a Tiger 60 kit which I built this past winter as a trike. its an easy conversion to make it a tail dragger which I will probably do this winter. I went through the same decision making process and was told to buy the plane I thought looked better and that was the Tiger.
I like the sheeted wing on the tiger ( minor point, I know ) and dont really like the look of the 4* canopy.
Plus no one at the club has a tiger so I though something different was in order.

I' not disappointed with the Tiger60

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