wrote:
I'd recommend learning on aerotow. If you do your checkride on aerotow,
it's only a CFIG endorsement to fly MG's, but you'd need a second
checkride if you do MG's first. Also, unless you're going to have
access to a MG after training, I don't see how a MG checkride will do
you much good since most FBO's are aerotow.

Correction to the above based on conversation wtih CFIG: Since the FAA
amended rules in 1997, it only takes a CFIG sign-off to move from any
launch restriction to another. What I said above was based on the rules
prior to 1997, and even then slightly off. Bottom line: If this is
important to you, check it out directly and don't depend on what I said
earlier!