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Thats interesting and the debate I had when teaching my Son to drive. He learned in my 69 912, 5 speed carbbed engine,
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Cgarr, You are spot on with that... I only used that analogy as one that I figured most people would relate to. I learned how to drive in a car with a 5 speed, because that's all my parents had. I feel like I actually would teach a child (IF I ever have them) in a porsche... but there is still a cutoff at some point. It's just I'm not sure exactly where it is. Probably any base model naturally aspirated car would suffice if you could afford to bang it around a bit. I would say that a sensible person would not strap themeselves into a 935, or something completely rediculous with someone that still has their training wheels. That's just common sense. But where's the cutoff? and to relate back to the thread, where does a dechathlon fall in the spectrum? It's no GT3, but its certainly not a corolla either. You could make an arguement that learning to fly in a complex airplane *could have some benefits too. ie, if you want to become a commercial pilot.
I guess the bottom line is, there is probably actually nothing wrong with learning in the decathlon, but one should weigh and understand the options. And also understand how those options may effect the quality, duration and cost of training.
Either way you're flying, and I can thing of MANY worse things to be doing.
