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Alisha Clarke wrote:
> Would it be better to stay with the same instructor and plane, or switch
> to another instructor and probably a Piper Warrior for those final 30 or
> so hours? 


For me, it's purely a matter of which plane you will be renting after
you pass the checkride. The Tomahawk or the Piper? You're halfway
through training, so I think you're probably in the best place to make
the change if you had to (able to make comparisons as well as sort out
the differences). I had three instructors, one at each stage of the
hour-building track (first an experienced guy who left me after 18
hours, then one in the middle of his 'tenure', then a woman who was a
newer CFI who 'finished me up'. Each of them taught me something the
other two didn't.

If you're going to fly Pipers for the first couple years (passengers,
etc), I'd feel comfortable making the change. 

-- 
Jeff Cook
jcook@his.com
Washington DC area
http://www.cookstudios.com
