Cubby 75% Cub
Cubby 75% Cub
Who owns one ?Pros and cons?
Worth the money
safe?
I dont see it reviewed in the african pilot light aircraft reviews
Worth the money
safe?
I dont see it reviewed in the african pilot light aircraft reviews
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Do yourself a favour. Go fly it. www.303squadron.com (FABB) Else drop me a pm I will bring it to you but it will take a while as I am snowed under at moment. (I have no financial interest - just like the aerie & it's price) Plenty pro's & cons. At moment I feel it is the best bang for the buck. Couple new offerings comming on line but at moment for production built it is hard to beat at that price. (The guys in Secunda will also always welcome you for a demo) I think the nose wheel looks K@K, but it flies nice. It is in harsh environment and handles well.
What you looking to do with it? It has 9 hr endurance with new long range tanks, but the seat will kill you way before the low fuel light comes on... Fuel injected 100hp people's car powered with reduction belt drive or little extra Rattex 582 it you don't like the VW's.
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It is a bit of handfull on ground in windy conditions and if you slapgat u will end up next to runway, but it lands so slow that once you have stopped blushing and swearing at your stupidity you can get back in air (following brief inspection). I speak from experience (I was not PIC. Instructor was trying to show me what happens if you get cocky and viola it obliged and we did not 1 but 2 mild ground loops in succession. ) Once instructor had topped blushing and swearing we did couple more conventional circuits and I bought 1...
Do yourself a favour. Go fly it. www.303squadron.com (FABB) Else drop me a pm I will bring it to you but it will take a while as I am snowed under at moment. (I have no financial interest - just like the aerie & it's price) Plenty pro's & cons. At moment I feel it is the best bang for the buck. Couple new offerings comming on line but at moment for production built it is hard to beat at that price. (The guys in Secunda will also always welcome you for a demo) I think the nose wheel looks K@K, but it flies nice. It is in harsh environment and handles well.
What you looking to do with it? It has 9 hr endurance with new long range tanks, but the seat will kill you way before the low fuel light comes on... Fuel injected 100hp people's car powered with reduction belt drive or little extra Rattex 582 it you don't like the VW's.
PS
It is a bit of handfull on ground in windy conditions and if you slapgat u will end up next to runway, but it lands so slow that once you have stopped blushing and swearing at your stupidity you can get back in air (following brief inspection). I speak from experience (I was not PIC. Instructor was trying to show me what happens if you get cocky and viola it obliged and we did not 1 but 2 mild ground loops in succession. ) Once instructor had topped blushing and swearing we did couple more conventional circuits and I bought 1...
Jacques
One of the problems of the standard side-by-side seating arrangement is the cabin width, especially if you are on the larger side. Take the opportunity at looking at the tandem, i.e. front to back seating arrangement, type planes. Because you are sitting one behind the other the elbow room tends to be a lot more comfortable than being next to each other. Because these planes are sleaker they tend to be quicker. Obviously I am biased but I have a Challenger Clipped Wing, with a little 503 motor that cruises at 75mph at 5300rpm and 85mph at 5750rpm. Add a 582 motor to this little beast and you climb at 1200fpm easily. Alternatives are the Titan Tornado's. There is both a challenger and a Titan for sale on this website. The only (which is not a problem to me) negative is that since the passenger sits behind you you don't have that visual interaction with your passenger, pretty much like riding a bike. This is not an issue if they happen to look like me but unfortunately if they are cute, you can't give them that reassuring hand on the knee when the flying gets a little rough
One of the problems of the standard side-by-side seating arrangement is the cabin width, especially if you are on the larger side. Take the opportunity at looking at the tandem, i.e. front to back seating arrangement, type planes. Because you are sitting one behind the other the elbow room tends to be a lot more comfortable than being next to each other. Because these planes are sleaker they tend to be quicker. Obviously I am biased but I have a Challenger Clipped Wing, with a little 503 motor that cruises at 75mph at 5300rpm and 85mph at 5750rpm. Add a 582 motor to this little beast and you climb at 1200fpm easily. Alternatives are the Titan Tornado's. There is both a challenger and a Titan for sale on this website. The only (which is not a problem to me) negative is that since the passenger sits behind you you don't have that visual interaction with your passenger, pretty much like riding a bike. This is not an issue if they happen to look like me but unfortunately if they are cute, you can't give them that reassuring hand on the knee when the flying gets a little rough
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Hello jacques,jacques wrote:Well I itend buying something like that.What a sweet aerie and for the price!!I switched training from weight swift to 3-axis and think it was a wise move
jcvb is right about the ground handling. I have a few hours on a J3 cub, albeit a 1/4 scale one - they paint them yellow so that bystanders can see them more easily when they weathercock and get the hell out of the way.
No good in a cross wind take-off, no matter how much wing you hold down and rudder you apply to keep from weathercocking (unless their tail end is attached to something like a glider). Flies great in the air though, with the exception of a bit of adverse yaw. Having more up than down aileron sorts this out but need plenty of rudder in the turn. Landing is deceptively easy but want to be straight and level long before short finals - don't want a wing thrown when close to the ground - only reason that I can tell you this is because it was only a model
Hope you don't have lazy feet!
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[quote="jcvb"]Yip can confirm that. I had landings down pat after 3hrs, but take offs took another 2 hrs to get right
jcvb, - we obviously did not have radio calls for model flying but it was good practice to call out your intentions to the other pilots standing next to you on the flight line - just before nudging the throttle forward on the J3 my call usually went along the lines of "everybody behind the wall, we all know what this thing did last time!!!"
jcvb, - we obviously did not have radio calls for model flying but it was good practice to call out your intentions to the other pilots standing next to you on the flight line - just before nudging the throttle forward on the J3 my call usually went along the lines of "everybody behind the wall, we all know what this thing did last time!!!"
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He he. When I did convex the instructor tried to demonstate the early indications of ground loop and did it so well we ended up next to runway. Quick inspection to check all ok (and remove grass from tailwheel ) we set off again.Batman wrote:jcvb wrote:Yip can confirm that. I had landings down pat after 3hrs, but take offs took another 2 hrs to get right
jcvb, - we obviously did not have radio calls for model flying but it was good practice to call out your intentions to the other pilots standing next to you on the flight line - just before nudging the throttle forward on the J3 my call usually went along the lines of "everybody behind the wall, we all know what this thing did last time!!!"
On second landing he said I will not let it go as far this time - but alas we once again were facing the wrong way about 50m off the tar checking the U/C and removing the grass from the tailwheel.
3rd time lucky, but was great experience to see it can bite you even if you have truckload of hrs on it... Maybe that why it took me longer to get take off right? I had first hand experience of how easy it was to end off the runway. I have had a couple take offs where on getting airborne I need some serious "work" to regain the centreline. Also it is so light that if you used to flying heavier bliks over controll is a serious problem....
But YA gotta luv it....
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