ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
ORIGINAL: cfircav8r
Are you flying off of dirt, pavement, grass? If it is grass dont worry it will slow rapidly. If it's a cub learn to land three point and keep full up elevator and it will slow quickly. As Gray Beard said a little toe in will help with both takeoff and landing. The tubing trick works great, but don't put too much brake in as it may nose over. You may find it will slow quickly on its own if it has the cheap foam wheels that come with many of the new planes. One last thing, if you can program the ESC make sure you can set it so the prop will free wheel with the throttle off and soft brake with the trim down. A free spinning prop will have a lot more drag than a stopped prop.
I blew right past the E part. Doesn't really mater if it's E or G, it will only take about three landings to figure out a cub. I had more problems taking off then I did landing with mine. I was the ground loop king!! That's when someone spoke up and told me about the toe in trick. Once learned, often used!!
Every time I tried adding elevator it would take off again. It was at about that time I learned about ground speed and elevator. I also tried mixing tricks but discovered it was a lot better to just learn how to fly the plane. I had a take off switch that added rudder and elevator as I rolled on the throttle, sometimes I would forget to switch it off. Thrill!!! Ask me about my switch for flaperons sometimes.
The learning curve has some very funny stories to it!
Stick man, my Cubs have slowed and stopped no problem. Takeoffs are a much different story. This post by Grey Beard is right on.
You may want to shift your thinking to concern regarding Cub takeoffs rather than landings.
Here's the bottom line about many Cubs: Depending on the Cub and the engine it's usually better to give half throttle and with very little elevator input, let the airplane find the sky.
I've named my current Cub "Miss Evil Intent." Once airborne with an overpowered 91 this is the sweetest baby to fly, like a gentle beautiful woman. But giving full throttle on takeoff she bucks, lunges and heaves into the air on the verge of crashing with spasms from the devil. You can't overpower a full wing Cub into the air - it doesn't work like that.
Instead, it takes half throttle on take off. Drama is avoided. Easy as pie, even with Miss Evil Intent.