wow that's small...just as cramped as the DA20's we have on my school.   
Seems to be more roll stable than the diamonds tho.
Hope you enjoy your flying adventures!

had my lesson this saturday (EDMJ / D-EDMP) ! It was fantastic.
I had a very nice and patient trainer, who was a former Dornier Engineer.
After we went through the checklist he placed me on the pilot seat (I didn´t expect a cockpit beeing that small).
He showed me how to taxi, wich was more difficult than expected. He told me.. "it´s very easy.. just imagine driving a tank"..
I went down the taxiway like beeing comletely drunk. On the runway he took over the pedals and let me do the start. I was so fixed on the instruments that i needed some seconds to realize that we were in the air. We climbed to 4500ft where I made some turns to get a feeling for the plane.
He than told me a little bit about VFR navigation and asked me I should try to find the place where I live. Not that easy to recognize even well known things
from above. After correcting me sometimes I finally found
it and we made some turns over my house. We than went on with trimming.. wich I never understood in flightsim
(cause my joystick stays in every position anyway).
On our way back to the airport we flew over the old Dornier Test Field (EDMO). My instructor got sad and he told me about the good old times when he was
building planes down there.
He than took over, lined me up with the runnway and told me to do the landing. That was the last thing I expected, and I was a little scared. He told me exactly what to do
and corrected my sometimes a little.
(He had his hands on all the time)
But I really have to say.. it was easier than expected .
I now know that my
flightsim landings where quite wrong (I should have taken some lessons with rod). I recreated the flight in flightsim
when i was at home, and realized that also in flightsim
landings are now much easier when following the same steps like in a real plane.

Overall it was a fantasic day.
After my lesson I had the chance to watch an "Extra"
doing some loops near the field.
I probabely don´t have the money to make a PPL the next time.. But for shure
I will take some further lessons from time to time.

Finally.. the big question.. how is it comparable with flight sim. well.. after just one lesson I can not say to much...
but the resolution is much better.. and also the framerate
is fantastic .. no seriously I think flightsim helps
a lot. You allready know all the instruments. And you have at least a clue how a flight should look like. But it isn´t really comparable because you are simply not flying wich makes 99% of the experience.

I´m still trying to get the smile out of my face...

sam

Sounds like you had a blast. The first thing I noticed about real flying is that it's actually easier than flight sim, to me anyway.