Chris,

First off; thank you for your service. Secondly; the Phoenix sim actually has the Super Cub LP on it, so you should be way ahead of the curve when you do get back and fly it for the first time. With time on the sim; you should have it mastered pretty quick. The Habu is also on the Phoenix sim. The Habu is pretty fast. A lot faster than the Cub. I would probably go from the Cub to a T28 Trojen before the Habu. I say this because the Cub is a 3 channel plane and the rest are 4 Channel. Might be a small learning curve once you add another channel, but this is just my opinion. Good things: all of these planes are on the Pheonix sim and the DX5e can control all of them as well; just bind and fly.