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Originally Posted by bike21  I would go with whichever option is better in your opinion in terms of experience and cost factors. |
Bingo. There is rarely a training advantage to one of the other, except perhaps for the fact that training at a towered tends to help a lot of pilots overcome communication fears. Of course the downside is that they sometimes become so dependent on that set of eyes in the tower that they become afraid of non-towered airports where they need to listen for other aircraft (that might not be transmitting) and see and avoid on their own.
BTW, my perspective on this is based on having done my private and IFR at a non-towered airport and my commercial and CFI at a towered one