Just before Christmas 2013 I joined a fairly new flying group based at Goodwood flying a Piper Tomahawk PA-38 aircraft. For me it is a totally different aircraft as it is much older, the wings are mounted underneath the fuselage, as opposed to the top (like the Cessna 172) and it has a traditional cockpit with all the round dials as instrument displays. On the Garmin 1000 Cessna 172s I learnt to fly on, they contained a glass cockpit with all the same instruments as the 32year old Tomahawk, but instead displayed on two digital display screens. I'm looking forward to building some flying hours in this new toy this year!
