Originally Posted by
jayteeto
A good ab initio trainer should be forgiving, fairly easy to fly and quite difficult to fly well. That allows margin for error and allows the good pilots to shine.
Which is why those of us who learned to fly in Austers just knew that we were the only people who could really fly properly. The past tense is deliberate; most of us have by definition one foot in the grave, as do any Austers still flying.