The prop shop has since gone out of business. A carbon fiber propeller spinner backplate was added. It also has Air Mods N. With the engine mods, ND cruises 10 knots faster. The panel of ND had its first major updates a few years later. I think we started taking stuff apart that night. Just point and click, and before you know it, you have a complete full-color 3-D profile and price list.
Before long the four of us were heads-down with electric planning, split buss isolation and load distribution conversations. Grove added Electronics International engine and aircraft instruments in order to have visual annunciation and audio AV warning systems, monitors and engine recording devices.
The EI temperature sensor that monitors the engine is set to a limit of degrees F. The foursome also added new under-the-panel emergency lighting, a HID nose landing light and an avionics cooling fan. Grove enjoyed this configuration for about six years. They did far better than that!
In addition, Grove had the seats recovered with leather inserts, repaired and recovered the glareshield, replaced and recovered the control yoke center covers and replaced the yoke grips. He also installed new Sterling Aviation Technologies door locks and sun visors. In addition to the locks, sun visors, tail skid—and a wing spar STC that can double the remaining service life of a PA wing—Sterling Aviation Technologies also manufactures hooks for overhead door latches, internal plastic pieces and rear tailcone bulkhead for the Tomahawk.
Fuel consumption for a typical PA is 5. The Tomahawk is owned solely for personal use, and Grove flies about 70 hours a year. The aircraft is now at 2, hours TTAF—less than half of the fleet average. Grove lost his medical for 10 months in When it came time for an FAA checkride to reinstate his certificates, he was advised by the FAA to rent an aircraft he was rated on. Once again, my little airplane returned home happy. Grove now has 47 years of flying and 22, accident-free hours.
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So, controversy officially resolved, but doubts lingered in the minds of some pilots, and the saga certainly did nothing to improve the image and reputation of the Tomahawk. With its highly responsive T-tail, you could easily over-rotate on takeoff or landing and damage the empennage. This brings up an interesting point with regards to aircraft design. Other trainers were too hard to put into a spin and they tended to fly themselves out of it.
The CFIs wanted a plane that would help students increase their spin recovery proficiency by forcing them to make specific piloting inputs to recover from the spin. The Tomahawk delivered on that request, but some would argue that they did it at the expense of creating more of a dedicated trainer than a solid airplane that works well as a trainer.
They may also have opened the door for potential accidents. Fortunately, this type of accident is an exception. This characteristic indicates that the aircraft is recovering from the spin, and it is essential to maintain full antispin rudder and to continue to move the control wheel forward and maintain it fully forward until the spin stops.
It also has a superior night training safety record and has been involved in half as many fuel exhaustion and starvation accidents as the Cessnas. As Eddie coaches his student through the recovery procedure, notice the instruction to hold the input since the recovery is not instantaneous. Eddie also points out that a left spin is more violent than a right spin due to P-factor and that the tail develops a signature shudder leading into the spin.
Eddie echoes the ASF advice to invest time learning and practicing spins with an experienced instructor. This goes a long way towards safer flight. During the final 2 years of production, Piper made multiple modifications, enhancements, and improvements to the Tomahawk design. The re-vamped aircraft was referred to as a Tomahawk II. The Tomahawk II design featured creature comforts like improved cabin heating and better soundproofing. The windshield defrosting performance also received improvements as did the elevator trim system.
Airframe longevity was considered and enhanced thanks to the use of zinc-chromate anti-corrosion treated airframes. The final welcome upgrade was larger wheels and tires. The new 6-inch models performed better on unimproved grass and dirt runways thanks in part to the increased propeller ground clearance.
The Tomahawk II planes also came direct from the factory with all the identified airworthiness directive issues already resolved. This makes the Tomahawk II the preferred and more expensive variant when searching for a new-to-you Piper Tomahawk.
The Tomahawk IIs are also harder to find than the original Tomahawks because in addition to their higher demand, fewer than of the nearly 2, Tomahawks produced were Tomahawk IIs. Sign up for our newsletter and be in the know. Receive coupons and special promotions! Your email. New customer? Create your account Lost password?
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