ORIGINAL: Flak
In a cross wind the Cub will side slip all on its own. I love Cubbies. They are fun, but often demand better than average flying skills in cross wind conditions. I believe a Cub is the best plane to fly when learning to use the rudder. I have noticed that after flying faster planes like warbirds and aerobats, some have to go back to the basics class when returning to the Cub. The Cub is the one critter that can turn around and bite you when you don't respect it. I have a Balsa USA 1/4 Scale Super Cub partially built that should be ready to fly in 2007. This Cub will be done in a Warbird scheme of course...LOL!
"Keep 'Em Flying!"
Flak
Sorry for the me-too post, but I just flew a H9 80" cub arf for the first time this last weekend. I posted more details in a H9 thread in the ARF's forum. But it's true. The cub is not a basic R/C trainer. The 80-incher has stall/snap characteristics that can burn you quickly if you don't respect it. If you learn how to finess the rudder and the elevator, you can make the cub fly very beautifully. But if you are lazy on the rudder and elevator (or aren't sure what to do with them) you can wander all over the place and possibly snap roll yourself into the ground.
This saturday I was doing a low-ish altitude loop and needed to tighten things up on the back side and whoops, she snapped on me. Somehow the gods of R/C smiled on me this weekend and I managed to save it, but both wing tips were within 6" of the ground at various points in my recovery. I was very lucky not to just spin it straight in given how I low I was when she snapped, and ***extremely*** lucky that I didn't catch a wing tip and cartwheel.
Respect the Cub, fly her with finess, stay far away from the stall regime at low altitudes, and she'll perform beautifully. I had no problems with ground handling, but you do need to be quick on the rudder to keep her tracking straight on the takeoff run.
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Mode...nt/Hangar9Cub/