Aside: Is the DA40 as cool as it seems? >smile<

I've flown some 172s. When the DA40 came out I thought it seemed like a really, really neat airplane. I got some marketing lit and talked to people about it from Diamond at Sun 'n Fun (in 2004, I think). It's nothing I could have even remotely approach buying then (or now, unless I wanted to live in it, I guess) but I just wanted to soak up some of the aura of the thing.

As someone who has flown it just once with an instruction, my impression was that things were a little cramped for my taste. shrug