If you do try to go at it without help, you should browse through the Parkflyer forum. There is a very lengthy thread dedicated to the Hobbyzone Super Cub, as well as many, many other threads where this plane is discussed. When the Hobbyzone Super Cub thread was started, they were still using a brushed motor and Nicad batteries. I still have a couple of those first generation birds that are still completely stock and still fly perfect. The plane was great even then, but the addition of Lipo batteries, brushless motors, and better electronics has really made the newer version a top quality plane.

A couple things I'll mention just incase you don't pick up on it in other reading:

The first things you will break on the plane are: Propeller, cowl, struts, tail section. I would go ahead and have a spare prop and struts handy. The struts will break at the ends where they fasten to the wings. In a pinch, strip the coating from a bread tie, heat a needle with a lighter and poke a hole in the end of the strut to allow using the bread tie to re-connect them. The cowl, wings, fusalage, and tail sections can usually be glued or taped back together sufficiently enough to fly until replacement parts are bought, I have one plane that has had the wing and fusalage broken completely in half several times and is glued back together and still flying.

Another thing to pay attention to is the control throws. The manual describes the proper set up, but in their haste, many people overlook checking the elevator and rudder linkage. Everyone of these planes that I've put together had to have the elevator yoke turned in several turns to keep the plane from climbing steeply at neutral trim. Same with the rudder linkage. Make sure that the control surfaces are in the "null" position (flush and straight with the stabilizers) when the trim adjustments on the radio are centered. If you set these correctly, the plane will lift off on its own after about fifty feet of runway and climb gently with out any elevator stick input from you.


Set a timer. Your fully charged Lipo should give you 8 to 12 minutes of flying, depending on how much you stay at full throttle. Set a timer for 6 or 7 minutes so you don't run of power at a time or place that won't allow you to land the plane.

Keep the plane upwind during your entire flight if possible, this way, if your battery does go dead or something else goes wrong, the wind will blow the plane back towards you instead of away from you.

Once you get airborne for the first time, get the plane at least twice as high as the trees. Most newbies mistakenly think it is safer to keep the plane closer to the ground where they can see it better.WRONG!!! Altitude is your friend!!! Don't get so high that you can't see the plane well, but staying about "two trees" high gives you time to make mistakes and correct them before meeting the ground again!

Keep the plane within a couple hundred feet. Most newbies get excited and have a tendency to let the plane get too far away before turning back. Keep the plane close enough that you can easily see the orientation of the plane, bank angle of the wings, direction of travel, and speed. Many, many, many, crashes occur simply from letting the plane get so far away that you can't tell which way it needs to go.

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