337 or High Performance Single for low time pilot?

[Guy Paris]

Hugh,
In my humble opinion, I would have to say any primary trainer is going to take some sort of a beating. Use someones nice new Cessna 172 for that. Why have that be your dream airplane? Approach and departure stalls equal shock cooling and higher cylinder head temps. Hard landings touch and goes, forgetting the cowl flaps, and just maybe the gear. It does happen. Running full rich equals fouled plugs. Gear up gear down excessively etc. etc. Its not that it can’t be done, but why subject your future pride and joy to that? I know I would not want my bird to be used for primary training and you probably wont find many owners who would. Just recurrent training at times pains me. Wish I could go and beat up a sim somewhere.
Guy, the old72 driver....