Coming from a former Cessna jockey, the 34 is a blast. It doesn't matter that it gets smoked by everything else in the military's inventory, it's a fire breathing beast compared to everything that 90% of the civilian pilots out there. Add into the fact that once you get the hang of it, it's incredibly stable and predictable in spins and stalls which is fairly impressive considering how many dents are in them now. Yes it feels like it's trying to cripple you after two hours, smells bad, has terrible A/C which blows condensation all over you at times and doesn't look as cool as other planes but so what, knowing that you're flying the same planes as the majority of now wigned aviators to come before us is a cool feeling.