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28 of 30 persons found the following review helpful.
Excellent First Flyer
By S. Dunphy
This is the plane I learned to fly with, as have a heap of people apparently. I purchased the introductory Super Cub (the same model as this, except not the LP version) and then I had the mini-super cub, and now this. The LP version has more power, but other than as supposed or expected is precisely the same as the original. The mini is identical but a littler scale. I would commend the mini to start. It does not have the power of this plane, but it is lighter, and hence crashes tend to be less destructive. But the trade off is that the mini have a tendancy to be buffeted by winds more easily, so you actually need to have a calm day to fly. Once you’ve practiced then this is a great next step. Bigger and faster, it may handle a little wind, and is great for practicing takeoff and landing. It’s a very forgiving plane once you may handle the basic control of the plane. With both planes, while you’re learning, don’t forget to give yourself a great deal of altitude so you may recover from any untrue steps. Also, when you do crash (and you will) this plane is fantastically easy to repair and make fly again. I have broken the nose division off of each one I’ve owned, and glued it back and flown. My LP has had the tail section snapped off, and it to glues back on and works fine. Get a hot glue gun and numerous clear packing tape (great for repairing wings) and you may fix an astounding number of problems.
The down side of this plane? It’s not exceptionally acrobatic, but that’s why it’s a outstanding trainer. Likes to fly flat and straight. And then there’s the automatic crash protection. Turn it off. It does not save you, and now and then seems to take over when you don’t need it. Look at the numerous remote control airplane forums on line, there are several, and you will see a pretty consistent message that this is not something you want to use.
Buy it, it’s fun. Trees will undertake to grab you and the ground will jump up at you, but soon you’ll master the simple controls and be on your way. Enjoy.
17 of 18 humans found the following review helpful.
Durable, Fun, Beginner RC Plane
By Brett Vanleeuwen
I jumped into the world of RC because I was got one of the IR helecoptors you see flying around booths at malls. After having so much fun with that, I decisive I wanted to leap to airplanes. I ordered this on Thursday, and it was here by Saturday and was exceedingly cheap for Saturday delivery. Love the shipping deals amazon gets with fedex/ups.
This plane is fantastic. Battery engineering has come a long way due to the high demand of progressed cell phones, and it’s great that fun hobbies like this get to take vantage of the new technology. It gets a solid 20minutes flying, if you are throttling 50%… it flies so far away, and you still have control (2500ft), so you don’t have to worry when it comes to it going out of range, because once it is a speck, you must probably turn it around anyway because you commence to lose sight of what it’s doing past 1500ft.
So far I have ‘crashed’ it twice. Both impacts were to the wings–1 on the left, and 1 on the right. Because of the outstanding wing design with the rubberbands, it lets it ‘give.’ I wasn’t going full throttle, because both instances, i saw the affect coming, so i stopped the propeller and hoped for the best. I was pleased to see there was zero harm done. I would say the worst place to crash this bad boy is straight into the prop, because that seems the most fragile.
A few gripes:
The battery compartment is damn small. Gotta genuinely squeeze to make it fit. I just push it in far sufficient to close the door, and call it good. Small gripe. Also, I want to upgrade from a 1300mAh battery to a 2100mAh, but the compartment is too small. So I am going to have to cut battery compartment into the foam to make it a little larger.
I haven’t gotten a perfective landing yet! It’s unquestionably the most unmanageable percentage of flying, but this thing keeps nose diving when the wheels touch the grass. I haven’t tried landing on cement yet, that must be much better. No harm done, but it just looks lame when each landing pushes it’s nose to the ground. Needs more spectacular tires or something for grass landings.
All in all, this plane fricken rocks. My dad, roomate, grandpa, girlfriends dad-all want to buy one now. For under $200, you may jump into a in truth stimulating hobby. I am no expert, but I imagine 5 years ago to get 20 minutes of fly time, with a 47″ wingspan airplane that has a range of 2500ft–what you get in this package–would cost well over $500. Technology is a outstanding thing.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Keeps on Flying…
By Michi
This was my initial R/C plane. My original flight in truth went without a major crash. Just a couple of hard landings in the grass which didn’t break anything major. Later on as I became better, I performed more daring stunts and it received a heap of damage, but not one thing that rendered it un-flyable. I find that repairing the Cub is kind of fun also, and as you take it apart and alter it you learn a lot with regards to the plane itself.
The alternate constituents are also very affordable, so if you do genuinely demolish something, it may be substituted without too much financial pain. Depending on how much you push the motor, you get to fly it with regards to 10-15 minutes on one battery charge.
I purchased a Muvi Veho camera for it, and you may tell that the Cub struggles a little bit with the extra weight, but it still without apparent effort goes to altitude and takes fun airborne footage.
I adjusted the elevator servo one notch so that it has more up travel than down. This REALLY helps landing the Cub as you have more up elevator as you come in and for the duration of the rollout.
I applied the ACT crash shelter once, and it stopped my prop on take off and the plane crashed, I never turned it on again…
I think I have learned how to fly the Cub rather well now, being competent to fly it inverted and buzz through the goal posts of the local (empty) soccer field. I now want something that has more power for better climb performance and ailerons. I’m looking at the T-28 Trojan form the same company.
If you are thinking regarding getting into R/C airplanes, you in truth can’t beat this Cub. It takes a lot of abuse, is easy to fly and very affordable.
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