Default Cub, getting airborne

[dswo]

All this talk about Cubs has made me wonder if I would actually fly a payware model, A2A's or FR's, if I bought one. I fire up the default Cub, but when I apply throttle it wants to tip over.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[p14u2nv]

Apply throttle slowly and reach full in stages or the torque monster will get you every time in that aircraft. She is very light so it goes without saying.

 

[Dangerous Beans]

Download the free modification for the default Cub from here
http://www.metzgergva.de/default_e.htm
makes it a much better plane to fly, especially the ground handling.

It still not a patch on the A2A Cub though.

 

[Alan_A]

The default Cub is a mess.

Go here and get Alexander Metzger's revised flight dynamics. A much better guide to your Cub flying skils.

The A2A Cub is in a different league, but Metzger's performs very well. Both are easier to fly than the default.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Dangerous Beans, you beat me by a couple of seconds. I defer to you, sir.

Great minds, though...

 

[spotlope]

Curiously, the default Cub flies nothing like the A2A version. I've always had the same problem taking off that you outlined. With the A2A version? No problem at all.

 

[fliger747]

Somewhere here I posted a revised FM for the stock cub quite a while ago. I don't know if it stil resides here after all the website troubles.

A number of "stockers" have been a bit more difficult to fly than the planes they are supposed to represent.

Cheers: t

 

[dswo]

Thanks, t. I found it in the library here with your other addons: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=downloads&FileUploadName=fliger747.