Have to concur. An excellent training platform, both for student and instructor. I had flown the Partenavia, Seminole and the Be76 prior to the Cougar and had heard all sorts of nasty tales, but they proved untrue as the GA7 is more docile than the aforementioned. The lack of performance is an advantage in many ways. If you can haul a Cougar around on one engine, you learn to appreciate why light piston twins are the most dangerous a/c out there and hence to respect them.
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