Absolutely. Send me an email [email protected] hopefully we can get your Tomahawk sorted. Have you found the group on Facebook for all the Tomahawk owners yet? If not, search "Piper Tomahawk Owners" on Facebook and you'll find the group. There is a wealth of knowledge there including a files section with the maintenance manual, parts manuals etc

Thank you! It has worked really well. I think the key is to use the module for low power switching to control the power bars rather than running the 120V through the module itself. Last year my text messages cost me $18 with that sim card so it's a great setup for hangars that don't have wifi available.

Thank you! When I first bought the plane I went through the whole thing with my AME and brought it up to the level I wanted where I can freely take my friends and family on trips. Now it's at the point where I have a full maintenance planner/tracker set up in an Excel spreadsheet and try to make little improvements along the way to make it nicer on every flight! Overall it's a low time airframe (around 3300 TT) and engine has less than 600 hrs since major overhaul. She's a nice bird!

No problem! I'll see if he wants to make a video sometime. He's a really humble guy and I'm very happy to have him keeping this plane in check.

Thank you! Several months later I'm still really happy with it

I really am lucky. It was a 3 hour drive each way but thankfully I had family nearby to visit and make the day shorter

They really were a brave generation

Thank you for the kind words. I really try to get my kids involved with "experiences" rather than "things". I hope someday when they are older and I'm not around that they have great memories of these times.

The signatures are one of the parts of that aircraft that really stood out to me. The bomb bay is it's own museum piece with that aircraft which makes it so special. A flying museum!

Thank you!

That's a big part of why I make videos like this. I want us to have these memories forever 👍

​@@planeswithperry Magic is looking out the side window ( cuz ya cant see over the dash) and watching the wheels leave the ground. I can see it like it was yesterday, but it was 45 years ago! Good on ya !

Thank you! I'm trying to teach these kids that sky is not a limit. I hope it sticks!

Thank you very much!

Unfortunately I can't make it. I'm working all weekend. I have to fit our flying days in between a pretty busy schedule 😐

You have that right. His first time in a plane was at 2 years old! Our plane will probably be the only Tomahawk over Medicine Hat if you see it!

Thank you! 😀

It probably looks like it from the camera angle, but from where I'm sitting the iPad is no further in my view than what the view would be past the A-pillar and side mirror of a car and doesn't interfere with my view outside the window. I can still see runways and taxiways on both sides of runways. As for the visor, I am looking for half a bracket that is 1/4 of the size of a credit card but refuse to pay the $300 a parts vendor wants for it when Ray Bans are cheaper 🤣

@@planeswithperry Cool cool.

My goal is 100 hours per year so thankfully I stay quite current. I did have to pile on a bunch of night flying (and takeoffs and landings) recently just for getting current on night stuff. I don't do a lot of night flying up here in Canada during the winter

I'm looking forward to the development of technology where we might be able to get some certified options for these aircraft that won't cost a fortune. "One can hope" 🤣

Thank you! I'll be passing 250 at some point in the next couple months 😀

Yep, that's already been established. It was one of my early videos. Cheers

I think so! Both of the kids really love the plane. We had a runway taped off on our living room coffee table for a while too 🤣

That's cool! If you need to know the line I flew in that video you can pretty much draw a straight line from Lacombe airport (CEG3) towards Bow Island (CEF3) to see the aerial mapping of the terrain on Google Earth

Thank you! It's a lot of fun to get the next generation into flying!

The Tomahawks really are great aircraft!

I agree, pushing something bigger needs much less input

Thanks pops!

It's a flight I will always remember. The sound was amazing (but very loud). You have flown a lot of aircraft Stefan!

Amen to that. People ask me what it was like, and I do not have words to describe it. My plans are to do the same on a B-29 "FiFi", a B-24 "Diamond Lil" or "Witchcraft" , and B-25 (only got to peek inside Skunkie when she was stored at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Owens Field).

A person can forget their plane ride on a 737 to Mexico but these vintage aircraft truly speak to you (and through you with the sound).

I feel like the Tomahawk should be featured every month! I'll have to grab a copy 👍

@@planeswithperry If only Piper made new Tomahawks for the 21st Century...

There were definitely a couple long feeling seconds where I wasn't sure what to expect...until I got a feeling for the wheels and the control on that ice 👍

Glen! I'm a big fan of your channel and all the work you did on your 172! We would be happy to see you make your way to Alberta. The Gull Lake strip is a yearly thing that gets set up every winter!

Thank you! It was a great "fly day"!

The runway was cleared to 2800 feet. As far as thickness, a drill test a few days prior to my flight came in at around 30 inches thick. They hosted a fly-in there a few days prior where dozens of aircraft showed up. To give some perspective, my plane with me and the fuel I had on board weighed around half the weight of an empty 2024 Honda Civic. Small planes are lighter than most people realize!

I used a GoPro because it was easy to carry around in the tight spaces

There's a bit of play there but clamping down on the ears would fix the bar too tightly to the strut in the way that it wouldn't compensate for up/down movement when transitioning between different slopes on the ground and would bend/break the ears off very quickly. The side to side play is minimal and doesn't affect fine control of maneuvering the plane.

Thank you! 😀

The high ground near Drumheller has some nice areas for it!

Not yet, but it's in my future plan to get a mountain checkout and slowly work into it. 👍

Dude, I'm a Tomahawk pilot and professional filmmaker for over 33 years, having worked on 65,000 individual productions (yes you get that many working in news as a director), and also have major film studio credits. Your video editing, music and information are absolutely fine. You have a beautiful family to love and look after and you don't need to be spending zillions of hours searching for royalty free music. It is sad that these days people take to attacking others to feed their own ego's. Keep up the great work!!!

Video was perfectly fine, especially for someone who is clearly new to making videos. Watched the entire video myself. On topic, great landings o/

That's the exact reason. I could tell it was a very cheap spray paint that was used so I didn't want a reaction where there would be bubbling or poor adhesion of the new coating. If it was the original factory coating I would have been inclined to clean it really well without removing.

Thank you! You will have a great time with your Tomahawk. I am very happy I bought one. As for the GoPro mounts, the ones I use were purchased from Aircraft Spruce made for aircraft use. The exterior one I use most is made to clamp onto tie-down rings and has secondary securement pins so nothing can unscrew. I have another one made by NFlightCam that is made to use one of the screw positions for a wing fairing (wind tunnel tested and FAA compliant). My interior ones use the RAM ball mount and clamp system. As for the iPad, I'm using a very old and cheap iPad Mini 2 and mounted with the RAM suction cup and ball mount system but I am looking to upgrade to a newer Mini and get Foreflight. I think anything larger than a Mini will take up too much room in the cockpit. As it stands, I have juggled the positioning between mounting on my yoke, knee pad, copilot side of panel, and the left side of the windscreen. I like the windscreen best because it doesn't block my vision and doesn't require a large head movement to incorporate looking at the iPad in my instrument scans. I don't like the yoke mount much because I don't like the feel of the extra weight on the controls. I flew my first 150 hours mostly reliant on paper sectionals strapped to my knee and had the iPad tucked away on the copilots side but am just starting to bring the electronics more into the game.