John did you go to the last one at Coningsby?
Yes I did, great day out!
On the original topic, it's not the aeroplane that matters, it's the training and the willingness to read the POH and do what it says. It's also about making sure you never stop learning and planning for every flight.
I can hand fly an aircraft in solid IMC quite happily, but mostly it's hard work so I use the autopilot. I can land a PA 28 in a short field because I read the POH.
Mostly, as I say above, the aircraft is irrelevant from a training point of view it's the instruction and the attitude of the instructed that matters. In some respects it's also the syllabus. I did an IR in Europe and it did wonders for my currency, but I had to learn about practical IFR flying separately from the course which taught me almost nothing useful in that respect.