Well, I flew "the beast" (
http://users.skynet.be/fa348739/image/skylane-ulm.jpg) last Saturday, though only briefly - 24 min's Hobbs - and of course with an instructor. The difference yoke <==> stick was less hard than I had feared, I had been well prepared on these pages... Elevator control tended to stick, making me push hard before anything moved and then when it moved it moved too much of course.
(added) The one surprise about the yoke was its small size - I had prepared for something like the car's steering wheel, but this thing might be taken from a Formula1 racer.
Much worse was the nosewheel, though! It castored freely
(is that correctly worded?) with no linkage to the pedals like I always had up till now. So in the taxi it was differential braking, one gets used to that. But it was strange to have to line up VERY neat, and lift the nose as soon as ever possible, to allow for rudder authority. Well, I'll get used to it, eventually. I hope.