the Tomahawk is after all a simple trainer rather than a high wing-loading complex widow maker
Isn't the contrary true i.e. so many people got killed in them that Piper stopped making them after only ~ 2 years?
My 20hrs in the PA38 taught me that it is a flimsy piece of junk, about as well made as a tent from Milletts, leaks like a siv in the rain, has a crappy elevator trim which is often so bad (it sticks) that pilots don't bother using it, and if you stall it it drops a wing very fast and plummets at a few thousand fpm. You would not want to be doing stalls or anything like that in it, under a few thousand feet.
Even if you want to fly it on a normal flight, it is quite twitchy and the difficulty of trimming it properly makes it tiring to fly. Learning in them is a waste of the student's money, IMHO.
Is the area of this accident applicable to wake turbulence from jets?