Thanks to Black Square and Just Flight a new generation of true quality GA airplanes has arrived!

Finally REAL flying and REAL owning-a-plane feeling with endless system depth is possible. Finally system failures that really happen when mistreating the plane or redlining the engine or by just using a plane for a long time (which means we get a plane that is really alive and reacting to the pilot). Planes now have quirks and unique characteristics and are stubborn to start up and save personalized cockpit features hobbsmeter hours and much more.

Finally the sim is getting SUPERB GA-planes.  No more dull and boring GA flights with incredible dull and boring default GA planes with absolutely no features and realism whatsoever and where nothing ever happens and every flight being completely the same as the previous one and the next one.

Now we get flooded engines, tyres loosing pressure, spark plug fouling, planes that get dirty over time (+120 more failures for example in the also oncoming Duke, I am too lazy to list them up now 😄 ).

Super awesome are the very unique and complete new radio panels, and of course the no GPS-screen-panel-options for the ultimate navigation challenge. So fresh and exciting seeing all these new awesome radio stacks instead of re-using and re-cycling the same Flight Simulator 2004 default Cessna 172 default radio stack + default GNS 530 again and again for eternity like we had in the previous decades in all GA planes.

It feels so fresh and exciting not seeing the same FSX default instruments with no system depth no quirks and no interesting realistic behaviour again and again and again in all planes forever. The Tomahawk will get so many new and awesome and feature-rich and never before seen radio panels - I love it! And have you seen how much you can play around on these radio panels in the video? Just like the real panel in the real plane, no longer are all features in the cockpit instrumentation that are not purely strictly for going from A to B left out and cut away and "NOT SIMULATED" but everything is now simulated, all the details and quirks and just awesome stuff to play around. Just like in the real airplane with fine tuning various settings and sub-menus of all systems and navigation panels possible.

Just Flight (and of course also Black Square, but I think they are just two product brands of the same company and therefore share the same new quality standard) are truly the saviours of GA-flying. For the first time since 1995 ... hm I don´t know how long flight simulators exist maybe even longer, they have managed to make GA simulator flying truly realistic, interesting fascinating, and of course dangerous and thrilling because of all the deep realistic features possible failures, and greatest cockpit realism ever.

This new Tomahawk masterpiece will truly sweeeeeten the wait for the also soon released Duke series 🙂 Surely the Tomahawk will be a pure feast for every true aviator.

Yeah, it's ok. Due out in about an hour and a half. 

24 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Yeah, it's ok. Due out in about an hour and a half. 

Sweet! I’ll get it the minute it’s out ☺️

Of course I won’t use the pseudo-AP in the EFB. Or at least not tell anyone that I did 😉

Edited April 25, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

1 minute ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Of course I won’t use the pseudo-AP in the EFB. Or at least not tell anyone that I did 😉

Heavens no 😶

7 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Heavens no 😶

Got lost around the Aleutian Islands the other day in the Turbo Arrow in IMC, low vis and icing conditions. An AP in that situation would have been a lifesaver as it was a struggle to fly the plane and figure out why I couldn’t tune the only NDB station within 200nm 😆 

@Poppet!!  Good to see you back on Avsim.

 

JustFlight really is a quality developer. I prefer airliners, though that preview video is very tempting.

And here it is - https://www.justflight.com/product/pa38-tomahawk-microsoft-flight-simulator

1.6 GB downloaded very quickly 

Edited April 25, 20242 yr by St Mawgan

19 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

1.6 GB downloaded very quickly 

I just snaffled it.  I used up some loyalty points as well. 

Yes, even on my old slow landline connection it was quite fast.   

She's a marvel. And quite heavy for such a small thing. Feels like I'm actually flying. Just as slow as you would expect. Slower even. I could do without the trademark Just Flight circular window scratches but other than that, a real work of art. 

1 minute ago, St Mawgan said:

She's a marvel. And quite heavy for such a small thing. Feels like I'm actually flying. Just as slow as you would expect. Slower even. I could do without the trademark Just Flight circular window scratches but other than that, a real work of art. 

Do the optional clean cockpit textures do anything to clean up the windows ?

5 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

Do the optional clean cockpit textures do anything to clean up the windows ?

Thank you, I didn't know there was an option until now. I'll install them. 

38 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

And here it is - https://www.justflight.com/product/pa38-tomahawk-microsoft-flight-simulator

might get it - do you know if it will come to the market place today or just their website?

3 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Thank you, I didn't know there was an option until now. I'll install them. 

I only know those exists as I had a look over the manual yesterday :)

As JetCat mentioned earlier I definitely like the sophisticated modelling of things like the Garmin radios, looking forward to getting a chance to fly this when I finish work

Now just need to persuade JF to add the open source KLN90 as a GPS option :)

Edited April 25, 20242 yr by Matchstick