2 hours ago, Mike62 said:

I may purchase this sometime in the future, I like full featured GA training aircraft but my money  is saved for the Starship next week and that is going to take a while to learn.  Also my current simulator flight mode is point to point, $100 hamburger flights.  I load up the simulator where I last parked my aircraft, find another restaurant/diner within 200 - 300 miles then fly there.   The Tomahawk for me would be just to slow for this type of trips.

Mike 

It would enable you to build up a decent appetite between legs though, surely?  🙂

OK, Changed my mind, decided to  add it to my hanger while it is on sale.

 

Mike

8 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

Still on the fence about buying though.  I like low and slow GA, but I don't know how much use I'll really get out of this.  

I was like that too, and I really had no intention of buying it because I had enough GA already. However,  I kept seeing such positive reviews, and added to the fact that it's by Just Flight, I succumbed. Haven't looked back either - it's become one of my favourite light GA aircraft.

5 hours ago, jon b said:

Many years ago (when I was a lad) a mate and I took one of these for an overnight trip touring  the southwestern tip of Australia.

We went from Perth to Augusta to Albany on day one then Albany back to Perth the next day, probably a 600nm round trip. The little tomahawk did ok, alright if the PA28 had been available we’d have taken that for sure, but the tomahawk held its own.

It was a good trip, i remember  downwind on the way into Albany one of the tanks ran dry and the engine stopped 😯 I won’t say who’s fault that was…but I wasn’t flying that leg! 
My mate didn’t panic and went robotically into his memorised engine failure drill which included flipping the big red fuel tank selector switch in the middle to the other tank, at which point the engine spluttered back into life.

How I laughed 

Ha ha!  Great story.  What if you HAD taken up a PA-28...and he was flying from the right-seat.   You would have had to reach down and flip the fuel selector for him.  ha!

I want so much to buy this because I love low-and-slow flying, but alas it doesn't include autopilot. I know the real one doesn't have it either, but I have two toddlers and it's incredibly rare for me to get stretches of more than 10 minutes without having to step away to do something for them. I wish JF had put an AP module on it, or even just a hidden altitude hold similar to the hidden VS control they have on their Arrows. 

3 minutes ago, Jeeper said:

I want so much to buy this because I love low-and-slow flying, but alas it doesn't include autopilot. I know the real one doesn't have it either, but I have two toddlers and it's incredibly rare for me to get stretches of more than 10 minutes without having to step away to do something for them. I wish JF had put an AP module on it, or even just a hidden altitude hold similar to the hidden VS control they have on their Arrows. 

Autopilot is included on the tablet. 

See Page 11 and 18 of this - https://downloads.justflight.com/products/JFF003602/PA-38_Tomahawk_MSFS_EFB_Manual.pdf

Buy it! 

Edited June 12, 2025Jun 12 by St Mawgan

16 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Autopilot is included on the tablet. 

See Page 11 and 18 of this - https://downloads.justflight.com/products/JFF003602/PA-38_Tomahawk_MSFS_EFB_Manual.pdf

Buy it! 

Really? I read somewhere that it wasn't included. I know what I'm buying later today! Cheers. 

From the manual - 

Quote

The real PA-38 Tomahawk was not equipped with an autopilot, but for convenience we have included options on the EFB that allow you to control some basic autopilot modes:

MASTER – engages/disengages the autopilot.

ALT – engages/disengages altitude hold and holds the altitude at the time of engagement.

HDG – engages/disengages heading hold and holds the heading at the time of engagement.

NAV – engages/disengages NAV mode. Can be used to follow a route loaded into one of the GPS units if the GPS is also set to GPS mode.

 

Edited June 12, 2025Jun 12 by St Mawgan

Some poeple don't seem to realise us sim pilots are doing something extremely important, and distract us with their petty demands. This makes an autopilot 'feature' very useful. Rack up another sale 🙂

8 hours ago, flyingscampi said:

Some poeple don't seem to realise us sim pilots are doing something extremely important, and distract us with their petty demands. This makes an autopilot 'feature' very useful. Rack up another sale 🙂

I tend to agree.  It's not that I'm trying to be lazy and I just need magenta and autopilot for every flight but I've got kids and life going on so as a dad I can't just sit down for 1 hour interrupted for a nice hand flying flight...  Sometimes I use pause but if its a longer flight and I'm just at cruise an AP is really nice.

I'm a bit off topic now but thats why im so happy Marc made the new C185 mods for MSFS 2024 with the dual GTNxi and AP!  I cant believe they didnt add one to the free 185!

Autopilot is a must.  I love low and slow GA flying, but hand flying in a sim just isn't practical.  At some point you need to turn on time accel and set the AP.  This seems like a good compromise to put in in the tablet.  

9 hours ago, flyingscampi said:

their petty demands.

"Their petty demands"   😁

The tablet-based AP works well enough, it's perfect if you have to get up and do something for a few minutes.

I haven't tried any old (2020) paints with this new 2024 version yet...I assume they will all work?

You all talked me into buying this.  I must say, it is fun to fly.  I'm using the old school no gps panel and my vor skills are so rusty.  Such a fun hand flyer.  

I like to think of those "fake" autopilots as simulated copilots 😃