dougf
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Post by dougf on Sept 14, 2010 2:57:37 GMT 1
Hello!
Just bought a Super Cub LP two days ago. I have surprisingly been able to hold off flying it while i'm reading the boards learning how to make it a little more durable. I flew a .40 plane TWICE when I was 12 and crashed, never flew again. So here I am 16 years later.
My plans are to get a new controller eventually and install ailerons, lights, etc... ;D
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Post by leisureshoot on Sept 14, 2010 4:35:28 GMT 1
Welcome. I'd recommend you watch these videos for an overview of modifying the Super Cub. (bottom 2/3 of the list) www.youtube.com/profile?user=NeCubFlyer#g/uETA: Oh yeah, don;t use the Anti-Crash. It will take over at the worst possible moment. Just remember to let go of the controls off the throttle and of the SC will settle back to level flight quickly on it's own. |
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dougf
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Post by dougf on Sept 14, 2010 12:17:21 GMT 1
Thanks for the advice. Ive been reading the boards and read what you stated about ACT. Wonder why they would waste the $$ and time marketing something that doesnt work.
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Post by iflyforfun on Sept 14, 2010 13:40:35 GMT 1
Wonder why they would waste the $$ and time marketing something that doesnt work. Advertising the Cub with ACT without a doubt makes up for a large percentage of the sales. Everywhere you look ACT is brought to the forefront of the advertising pitch.....Until you read one small paragraph in the instruction book not to fly it over water,sand,light colored ground... Now think of it, if your reading the instruction book, you've already bought it ;D I've never flown with ACT. I disconnected it and then cut the wires when I first assembled the plane. Basing my opinion on only the information I have read in forums makes me believe it is extremely restrictive but works.  What a fantastic marketing tool!!!!!!!!! Ifly |
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Post by iflyforfun on Sept 14, 2010 14:03:41 GMT 1
I have seen miniature radar altimeters. Don't remember where but they have them. Now link a radar altimeter to a micro chip that the user can program for a specific altitude. Package this product into a small 2 or 3 gram unit that can be hooked up to any receiver.
Your flying along and the unit is reading 105 feet. All of a sudden your plane goes into a 90 degree bank and the sensor is reading thousands of feet.. Same principle as ACT but instead of light sensing radar sensing.
I wonder if such a product is available.
All a wast of time!!! If you have altitude just let go of everything and a Cub will correct itself. If you don't have enough altitude your screwed no matter what equipment you have on board. ;D back to my original observation.. ACT is a great marketing tool!!
Ifly
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Post by leisureshoot on Sept 14, 2010 16:52:14 GMT 1
If you don't have enough altitude your screwed no matter what equipment you have on board. ;D back to my original observation.. ACT is a great marketing tool!! Ifly you could always put a safety chute onto the aux port.  Still needs some altitude, though. Perhaps a rocket engine facing forward, to slow your descent at the last moment? RAL - Rocket Assisted Landing. (if you don;t know the story of the C130 that they tried this on, look it up on youtube. |
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Post by iflyforfun on Sept 14, 2010 19:17:22 GMT 1
If you don't have enough altitude your screwed no matter what equipment you have on board. ;D back to my original observation.. ACT is a great marketing tool!! Ifly you could always put a safety chute onto the aux port. Still needs some altitude, though. Perhaps a rocket engine facing forward, to slow your descent at the last moment? RAL - Rocket Assisted Landing. (if you don;t know the story of the C130 that they tried this on, look it up on youtube. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I LIKE THE IDEA ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D In general aviation the SR22 has a "CAPS System" (Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS™) We need to hook up a small model rocket motor to a chute and connect it to the ACT circuitry....LOL ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Hey Leis, your brilliant.....I love it!!!! ;D Think about it, you keep it a secret. Go out to your club field bragging to your buddies about this new system that you want to show them.. ;D get your cub up to about 100 feet and then enter a sharp turn...The rocket motor fires, the canopy deploys and your cub slowly floats back to earth. lololololololol You are now the most famous man in your club.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Ifly |
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Post by leisureshoot on Sept 15, 2010 0:42:15 GMT 1
Here is the original idea....it didn't quite work.
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