Flew a PA28 first 15 hours of PPL (hated it), switched schools and finished up flying Flight Designs (love them). It's a stick control not a yoke, might be weird at first but it feels so much more natural, at least thats my opinion.
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Where I'm from its hard to find schools who use these planes. Another downside is the Flight Designs are 2-seaters, so I'm forced to rent C172s when I have more than one friend along for the ride. But I did hear they are coming out with 4-seaters in 2013!!