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| 07-06-2010 06:17 AM | |
| supercub1974 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Thanks, never thought about that. I have a hard time landing it now. Good to know.. |
| 07-06-2010 05:06 AM | |
| ss40a |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Why 12x8? Use the throttle and limit RPM with it. I use a 12x5 on my Hangar 9 on floats and it flies plenty fast with an .80 4 stroke. With a 12x8 it may go forever without landing, depending on idle. Had a 14x6 on a 1/4 scale when I sold it. |
| 06-29-2010 05:12 PM | |
| supercub1974 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Oh sorry, its 31cm wing and 132cm length from tip of cowl to trailing edge of rudder. Thats 12 1/4" and 52" for us Canadians who for some reason use the U.S standard system lol. |
| 06-29-2010 12:48 PM | |
| bartman |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Supercub, I was refering to the wing cord (leading edge to trailing edge) measurement. If you can also how long is it cowl to rudder? Still waiting for good weather here to tryout my cub. Just trying to do some math as to the different c of g between the two 80" cubs. B. |
| 06-29-2010 05:14 AM | |
| supercub1974 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Hi Bartman, I have the floats on my wishlist but am waiting to get use to it a little more first, I heard its a little tricky. The wingspan is 81". |
| 06-28-2010 10:12 PM | |
| bartman |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Hey Supercub, Nice vid forget the rubber grab a set of floats. I have 5inch dubros on mine now with same air pressure as delivered. I added some fuel tubeing and an old syringe to the filler fitting. You said your recomended c of g was 4 inches How wide is your wing? B |
| 06-19-2010 08:18 PM | |
| eastcoast78 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. yea they look crazy,let me know how they are.Im not sure how you inflate/deflate them though...maybe a small Bike Pump. |
| 06-19-2010 04:21 PM | |
| supercub1974 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Thanks guys the 5" Dubros are on the way, this may help with the landing area being so rough. |
| 06-19-2010 03:47 PM | |
| Guest |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. Keep throttling back and keep the wings level with no extreme movement of ailerons, elevator or rudder, and be ready to advance to 3/4 or full-throttle if not sure that the plane is goig to land cleanly. You should be running at a rich idle when you enter the turn unto final, and have been backing off on the throttle stadily during the downwind leg, at a minimum. When I was flying the Unionville Cricket (taildragger), approaches were simple: run the entire approach at rich idle or just aboe that so that the plane naturally descended at a slow rate. THis plane had a semi-symmetrical airfoil like yours so approaches should be similar. Best idea is to get an instructor to run a landing approach with you looking at what his hands are doing on the sitck with occasional glances to locate the plane reative to the runway (he should be talking to you and telling you where the plane is relative to you and what you should be doing.) Next approach is with you on the sticks and the instructor standing beside you, giving you feedbakc on where the throttle should be at each stage of the approach. Then shoot five landing approaches with touch-and-go (land, roll, full throttle and take-off) to lock the procedure into your memory. You may get a nick-name like "downdraft" or "bouncer", but you'll be able to do perfect appraoches after that. |
| 06-19-2010 09:56 AM | |
| eastcoast78 |
Re: Great Planes piper cub landing gone all wrong. hey SuperCub to bad about your cartwheel ,yea Cubs don't need much if any Flair on landing.Have you tried and no Power landing yet,or a dead stick? . look into getting some DUR BRO 4 1/2 or the 5'' air filled tires ,they are inflatable/deflatable...[NOTE.just make sure you get the size of your axle right] I think it would help for your rough landing area there. They'll make your CUB look like those CUB DRIVER flicks on UTUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfeML...eature=related Im Building my CORO CUB and these are going on her for-sure... http://www.greathobbies.com/producti...od_id=DUB500RV |
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