AIRCRAF T ADD-ON FOR MSFS 2020
The classic Tommy gets the Just Flight treatment
I must admit I’ve been looking forward to writing this review ever since I heard that Just Flight had this aircraft in development.
I’m talking about the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk for MFS. Why this aircraft you may ask? Well, it’s the primary aircraft I did my PPL training on; consequently it has a special place in my affections. Not to mention some of the most harrowing moments I experienced during those early months, when the Tommy seemed trying its best to kill me! Only joking... it was my inexperience rather than any fault with the aircraft.
Piper’s PA-38 Tomahawk
The PA-38 Tomahawk was introduced in 1978 and was in continuous production until 1982, by which time 2,482 aircraft had been built. It's a T-tail two seat training aircraft, with a fixed tricycle undercarriage and a fixed pitch metal Sensenich twin-bladed propeller. A Lycoming O-235 flat four-cylinder piston engine provides the power; reaching a maximum speed of 126 mph, with a cruise of 115 mph. It has a fairly slow stall speed of 56.5 mph and a climb rate of 718 ft per minute to its service ceiling of 13,000 feet.
The aircraft was conceived after the company surv…
