Many thanks for your comments guys I really appreciate them. I have flown the Thruster and the C42, the guy who will be instructing me does have a preference for the thruster(from a teaching point of view) as he says there are no flaps to worry about! I must say it's quite interesting in the C42 with the stick in the middle and the flap lever in the overhead, I can see where you could get into a left hand or right hand situation!