Dirk,
I can assure you it is a great little plan to fly, very twitchy which means you learn to steer... After a PA38 a PA28 will be a doodle, so from that perspective a good trainer.
I believe the plane was not cleared for spin training but incipient spin was allowable, so my instructor did show me one. I went... WOW !
The stalls were not very docile, a serious wing drop would occur unless the ball was perfect in the centre.
In all it was a great little trainer with fab views from the cockpit.
Later after my PPL my revision instructor would ask me to land it in the shortest possible distance from 500 ft at the threshold. She would land it from there on the numbers! Sideslip all the way down, level perfectly at the right time and immediately lift the flaps on touch down, and break hard. You can do more with a plane than you'd think.....
start shooting, friends....