![]() ![]() This plane beat DMMS into my head decades before Dan Gryder made it cool. This is why she earned the nick “Traumahawk” and killed many folks who got too slow in the pattern. And it was physically difficult to reach the opposite rudder pedal against the lateral Gs. And she’d keep spinning until she bent or broke unless you applied opposite controls quickly just releasing the controls was no help. Her natural and expected reaction to a stall was to roll completely over and then flatspin so fast you were stuck in a corner of the seat. But it’s definitely love-hate as, prior to an AD adding inboard stall strips (in addition to the default outboard ones), this thing was PURE EVIL in a stall. This is the plane I learned to fly in and, as such, I have a soft spot in my heart for her. These capabilities were crucial to make the Tomahawk a popular choice for flight training, a role that it still plays today across the world. This was in contrast to the Cessna 152/172, which were designed to quickly recover from a spin without pilot input. It will be interesting to see how the developers implement the Tomahawk’s known spinning capabilities, a requirement in the development of the real aircraft to meet flight instructors’ demands for a more “spinnable” aircraft. Just Flight promises to unveil additional details about this project soon, but we reckon a highly detailed visual model and accurate flight dynamics are in the pipeline. Especially considering the tremendous job they have done with the Arrow III/IV and the Warrior II. However, the Tomahawk is a praised Just Flight product in X-Plane, FSX and P3D, so there’s no reason to expect otherwise from an updated version for MSFS. Besides the handful of images, no additional details were given. On a short notice on Just Flight’s social media, the development studio unveiled the first images of a new GA aircraft for MSFS, a category that has proven to be very successful for Just Flight. While that doesn’t happen, Just Flight decided it was a good time to preview another aircraft that the team has been working on for MSFS, the PA-38 Tomahawk. It’s late September, which means we should be about to see the Just Flight Hawk T1/A landing at any time in Microsoft Flight Simulator. ![]()
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