FNG
An interesting question that had me looking back through 35 years PPL flying.
De Havilland Rapide - pax
Percival Provost – the one with the Alvis Leonides engine. LHS as a cadet
Avro Anson (do twins count?) – RHS as a cadet
Fairchild Argus with the inline Franklin engine – RHS offered by the owner who then took me up in his Turbo Stationair (C206)
Bucher Jungmann – Front seat or back seat can’t remember.
Auster 5 with Lycoming 150hp conversion
Cessna 140 – Is this a spam can?
The point I was making, somewhat obliquely, in today’s world of FBW and Glass cockpits, the aspirant pilot wants to be exposed to modern “systems”. The more knobs and whistles the better. Just look at the discussions here on GPS, is it a no-go item.
I don’t believe that a Tiger Moth really offers any advantage to the aspirant pilot whether it is technical or spiritual.
I am not knocking Tiger Moths, in fact a long time ago there was an Air Raid Shelter just outside the Marshalls perimeter fence not 50 yards from the Tiger Moth hangar and I spent many a weekend sitting on the concrete roof looking at those same aircraft that fly today. And dreaming of the day I would fly….
And that was many, very many years later in a PA28-140, far away from Cambridge, in the arid Karoo of South Africa. But in a spam can no less.
What to fly? It comes down to personal choice, thank goodness.