Tim,
In envy mode - I gave a few hundred hours of (mostly instrument) dual in Cheetahs, only a few tens of hours experience in Tigers. Learned to love the control authority and responsiveness in the Cheetah and then discovered the performance of the Tiger. (Thinking of an Cheetah instrument cross country with an instrument student and two pax when we had calculated W & B very carefully but simply could not make the airplane climb at more than 200 FPM at 7000 feet, so amended our flight plan to take that as a final rather than the 9,000 for which we'd filed.
Also learned that honeycomb bonding makes for a heck of a strong structure.
Warmest regards,
Rick