I normally fly taildraggers but needed to re-val by experience so thought I'd try the Tecnam with an instructor. My experience was similar to the prediction about "Italian"!
- The fin and rudder are too small and this means that you need half rudder before you open the throttle to catch the swing.
- If you're over 5ft 10ins then you can't see properly out of the thing - the canopy arch is massive and right in the places I wanted to look for conflicting aircraft.
- It handles like a LAA type aircraft - so not much good for easing the average Joe into flying to PPL standard.
- I think the EV97 Eurostar is a far superior aircraft (decent sized fin/rudder and you can see out of it!).
So yes, it looks great but in my opinion it is a pretty poor PPL aircraft.
LJ