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A and C
As to it being a good trainer, it is an adequate trainer............ The C152, PA38 & DHC-1 are good trainers.
Agreed - the PA28 is there to train baby airline pilots in hand flown precision nav. It does that adequately well.
Only problem is that they'll rarely fly hand flown precision nav, and good handling skills or managing stuff that's quite unreliable, would serve them much better.
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