Airbus,
No I wouldn't turn down a go in a Chippie, or a Spitfire (or a Pitts or a Tiger Moth etc...) All of them have their down sides but all of them have massively redeeming features - I think it's called character.
The Tommahawk has few redeeming features - price is probably its most.
My first (and maybe last) flight in a PA38 was a day before my GFT so I was with an instructor. The Worrier had expired its 150 hourly, and I desperately needed some instrument time. I was very much in the PA28 groove, which IME requires quite solid control inputs to get it off the ground. Not so with a PA38, in pitch anyway!
I think the only fatal flaw with the Tommahawk is that there are better choices of aircraft out there. I don't understand why people should be encouraged to put up with 'average' when 'better' is readily available.
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