Flyzone Select Scale Super Cub
 

I can't seem to find a thread for these yet, and I would love to hear from some other select scale Cub pilots. I've had mine about 2 weeks and love it. I fly mine with a Flysky TH9X. Only gripe so far is that the alerons were sitting a little high, but that was easy to remedy. I also changed the planes plug to a Deans plug so I could get my batts on Ebay for $11.40 shipped. I have 4 batts for it now and im having a blast with it.
I lost the foam spinner, and found a set of 10 Cox .010 rubber spinners to silicone on for under 6 bucks shipped. Life is good. Dennis

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How about we make this the "official" thread. I posted long ago that it was hard to find and keep track of specific planes and it is nice when a thread is full of info.

I have the 48 inch Piper (made by ST models) and I like it real well. I've had mine for around 6-8 months and don't fly it very often any more. It flies nicely with a 8x6 prop and I use a 9x radio too. I use a 3sx2.1 pack in mine for longer flight times. Mines kinda rough cuz I bought it used.

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Hey, if it's rough, it just needs bigger wheels and flaps, then it's a bush plane.
Im diggin this electric stuff. I used to have 5 planes with Saito's, and a $40.00 a week nitro habit. Im free ! Now I have 4 electric planes, and 1/4 scale gasoline powered Balsa USA EAA Biplane that runs on penny's. I also have 2 electric heli's. No more nitro for me.

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Im still using the stock 8x4 on my Cub. I saw a video where they liked a 8x6 better, but I can't imagine why. That would just lug the motor down more and use more battery. These particular Cubs are proped fine from the factory in my opinion.

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Mine has no wheel pants and bigger wheels. It actually doesn't look too bad. Stil likes to nose over in my back grass. I think I'll fly it today. :D I have 2 planes to maiden today if it's nice.

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I have 2 Flyzone planes, the Cessna 182 SkyLane Select Scale and their Focke-Wulf FW 190; both are beautiful planes. If they are any idication of quality, your Cub must be really nice. I have a friend that has one painted yellow. It is a great flying plane and sounds scale when flying over you. Flyzone makes some pretty good products. I just wish my LHS would carry parts! Enjoy.

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Im going to go to bigger wheels also. Yes, grass is hard to deal with when you have small wheels.
Wheel pants just get messed up and get in the way in my case.
Just got back from flyin a few minutes ago. I flew 4 packs with the Cub, but didn't record any of it. I did make some video's of my friend flying his 1/4 scale, 26cc, Great Planes P6 Hawk.
I still need to upload them so it will be a while, in case you want to see them. My You Tube username is "n6ugyham". They should be up within the hour, unless the camera screwed up again. Some of the recent video's have had some weird clouds of color going on, so we'll see...

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The landing gear on the Select Scale Cub is amazing. I've had some funny landings that moved the suspension a good inch.
I wish they had used two servo's for the alerons so we could use flaperons.
I thought the horizontal stabilizer was a bit flimsey, so I added support rods underneath. They really tightened things up.
I also added a rubber band around the fuse and the rear tab of the wing to hold the rear of the wing down against the fuse.
I need two more batterys, 4 isn't enough. Im thinkin 6 would be about right. lol

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I think you need a "faster" charger. ;) Mine flew fine yesterday for 13 minutes with the best landing I've ever done on it. It's got to be the bigger wheels on the grass. My landing gear is almost always bent. My RX came loose , but have reglued it and is ready to go again.

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I have a Triton charger, but havn't charged at the site yet. We get there at about 7:30am and fly till about 9:30 or 10am, and get out of there before our hair catches fire.
I charge the Cubs batts at 1 amp, and it takes about an hour for each pack to charge.
I tied my UMX Beast down and it ran for 15 minutes just below full throttle.
I will do that with the Cub today, and see what it can do. I had no clue, so I was just sneeking up on more and more time slowly to find out. 13 minutes is very good.

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This is my first Flyzone plane, and im very impressed. Considering from the fact that it's very light, it does quite well in the wind.
Since im just getting back into the hobby after a 6 year break, I think this Cub is the perfect plane to get my thumbs back with.
I want the Carbon Cub SS and optional floats next, but I may try the Flyzone Cessna after that. I love this electric stuff.

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I tied mine down and ran it just beloe full throttle, and it started losing power at 8 minutes. It fizzeled out at 9 minutes and 45 seconds.
I was not moving the sticks during the test, I figured the extra load of being restrained would be enough. Dennis

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Final run time test was in the air, and it got just over 13 minutes just doing mainly slow flight and landings.
I rechecked the CG and it was slightly nose heavy, so I removed one of the weights up front. Havn't test flown yet, maybe tonight.

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I think I have my battery pushed all way forward and ALL those weights are removed. Where do you have your RX mounted? Mines up high in the cabin up on the rear deck. It can be seen thru the window. ;)

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My receiver is wedged in the foam and sticking up into the cockpit. It's rather large Flysky 8 channel unit. I should have used a smaller one, but thats what I had at the time.Just got back from the flying site a while ago, it flies better and lands nicer without the weight. Maybe I should try it with no extra weight. I shove my batts all the way forward too. My CG seems perfect with the 2 weights remaining.

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I've been flying the heck out of this Cub, and the only thing I can say is that it flys like a Cub. The roll rate is very slow, the alerons simply don't move enough to do a roll. I could remove some foam around the hinges so they could move more, but I like the fact it flys so scale, so im leaving it alone.
This electric stuff is new to me, but im really enjoying it. Ya just need a bucket full of batterys and a couple of feild chargers to keep going.
I can get 10 minutes out of it running around 60% throttle and landing alot. Landing is my favorite part of this hobby, and the Select Scale Super Cub is a blast to land. If landing is your passion, you'll love this Cub. Once ya get used to it, you can land it almost anywhere.
Im looking forward to removing the wheel pants and installing larger wheels so I can fly off dirt roads etc... I may even add flaps later.

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Well, I agree with you. Mine doesn't spend a lot of time inverted. Loops are fun though. I wish I was a better lander and had a better landing area. I don't like landings at all. Yesterdays flight was a good landing , but resulted in a nose-over right at the very end of it (right before it stopped)

I have cubs in 1' , 2' , 3' , and 4' and this 4' is my favorite one.

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Sounds like your landing on grass, or dirt and hit a small rock. Thats hard to do without big wheels.
Yeah, they do great loops, no problem there, but the alerons don't have much physical travel stock. Under the cowl, there's 2 weights on one side, and one on the other. Remove the top weight on the one side, and see if it doesn't land better, mine sure does. Also, set your throttle trim up a little for an idle, that may help too, unless your short on runway length. I use the throttle cut switch on my Flysky TH9X to start and stop the motor. Works great and looks cool too.
I like about a 5 to 10 mph wind for landing, otherwise we need a long pretty runway eh. lol

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Yea, I do land on my back yard which I try to keep cut short. I can only land one way so many times it is with the wind instead of against the wind. There's never any "taxiing" on my "runway"

Would you be interested in participating in my "official" 9x stock firmware programming thread? http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_11...m.htm#11150535 that went "stale" because of inactivity. [>:]

I would appreciate knowing how to set up and use that throttle cut switch. This cub and many of my other planes are simply "active" when the battery is plugged in and I have no safety built in. I would like to program the same switch for all of them. Thanks for the tips.

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Just go into the settings and open throttle cut. It will be inhibited, so you need to activate it. Once you activate it, it should work properly without any other settings. It's the top left, furthest back switch. Pulling towards you will stop the motor. When you power up the plane, if your using an idle at bottom stick, and the throttle cut switch is on, you need to shut it off, turn it on, and turn it off again before the motor will run. Easy to get used to, but might trick you a few times at first.

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For those of you who are looking for replacment spinners, I found these to silicone on.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/10x-Cox-RTF-...item56476c9c49

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Mine almost caught on fire today. I have always hand-launched it and today I decided to see if it would take off on the grass with the bigger wheels. It went about 6 feet and nosed over. I think I cut the throttle quickly , but heard a bad humming anyways. When I got to it it was already smoking big time out the front cowl. I flipped it over and removed the battery hatch to find some nice pretty orange and red smoke coming from the lipo I thought. After I unplugged it I had a hard time removing it because I have it stuffed all the way forward and it wedges pretty good. Anyways I got it out and sen that it was the esc that was hot and put a mark on the battery , but I don;t think the battery is hurt any. The esc melted the foam I guess. I thought it was the motor smoking at first.

I just got done replacing the esc with a supertigre 20 amp that I had and it spons the motor just fine. I had to glue the rudder hinge , I must've flipped it over very fast onto the rudder. When it dries I'll give it a go with same battery and motor and prop , but new esc. Maybe tomorrow. I just couldn't bare to retire it yet. It's getting pretty beat up. It was used $51 when I bought it.

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Thats a royal bummer. I hope it's going to be ok.
Mine has been doing good so far. I did see a You Tube video where a guys Select Scale Super Cub burned up. I think he said it was the ESC also. Now im getting a little worried...
What batterys are you using in yours ? Im using some 1300's I get from Hobbycool on ebay for about 15 bucks shipped each. I have 6 of them now.
I don't think i've ever even seen the ESC in mine. I better find it and start feeling it for heat occassionally. Maybe we should install 30 amp ESC's in them. Sounds like the stock 18 amp ESC's are too wimpy.
I take off at full throttle, but then I throttle back to about 1/2 to 3/4, and then only go wide open once in a while, and then only for short periods.
Ya know, if the ESC's are getting hot, their robbing us of runtime and power. 30A ESC time...

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By the way, I received those 10 little spinners I ordered, and they will work, but their very tiny. They slip over the motor shaft and stay put, but their way to small. When I posted that link, I had ordered them but not received them yet. The hunt goes on...
I have a great spinner on mine now. It came off another motor a friend gave me, and it fits perfect. We just don't know what it came off of.

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Mine will be back in the air in a few days. I had forgotten where the esc even was and I don't even know if I'm the one who put it there.
I use a very old used 3sx2100 Flyzone pack that was puffed when I got it.

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Puffed ? Thats not good. I hope it was cheap. lol
Hey, have you seen these dude in New Zealand yet ? They know how to have fun. lol

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OOPS ! here they are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ktj2...feature=relmfu

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Anyway, the plane is built and looks OK from a small distance but if you look at it close, all the areas that had to be fixed come to light...

As I unpacked it and started building it, found that the wing´s leading edge was opened at the seam - had to glue it with CA and reinforced it with packing (transparent) tape... the elevator is not flat as it should be and haven´t been able to get it straight without breaking it... it is not terribly bad but I imagine it will affect its flight characteristics some... when installing the elevator, the wire wouldn´t work well as the installed tube was too close to the side instead of the center of the fuselage as it should have been... Had to cut a piece of the side of the fuse in order to get it to function (changing the tube would have been major surgery). One of the control wires (pushrods) was missing from the kit. The space for the receiver (micro) is very tight and opted to install it in the cabin as this would make more room for a battery in the battery compartment which is also very tight (I guess they made it this way so that Hobbico batteries are used). The cowl was totally crooked and really don´t know how they installed it as the motor shaft and the prop adapter wouldn´t fit it. Had to carve the hole in order to get it off... also, the little rubber spinner I think will last for the photo session as it will fly away as the engine is turned on... no way to hold it in place and glue is out of the question since if you have to change props, you´ll be in trouble if you glue it.

Anyway, I´m kind of disappointed with the kit´s quality as I compare it with other manufacturers of RTF or PNF models...

Other issues: The way the pushrods are, you´d better pray that when you build it things turn out fairly well as there is no way to conveniently adjust them once the model is built. There are no clevises to turn and the wires are so soft that bent when the servo screws were tightened... getting to the servos, due to the many screws holding the landing gear, wing struts (which are the best part of the kit) and wing is something you may not want to do at the field if required. Would have been a lot better to provide a hatch at the bottom of the fuse to have easy access to things.

I´m hoping that the plane will fly well and that the trims in the transmitter are enough to correct any problems as I don´t plan to take it apart again. Well, here are my five cents regarding this plane... hope it helps someone.

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I guess I got lucky. Mine went together quickly, and has been perfect for 6 months now.
You can remove the struts and wing in about 3 minutes. You don't need to remove the landing gear. Just the 2 screws that face rearward (one on each side), and the screws that attach the struts to the wing, and the screw under the fake antenna, that holds the wing down.
I use 1300ma 15C 3S lipo's I get on ebay for about 12 or 13 bucks shipped, and they fit perfectly. I use scotch tape and make a pull tab on the battery, so I don't have to pull on the wires.
I put a male deans plug on the plane, because thats what my cheapie Lipo's come with.
Never had an issue with the control rods. Just set everything at neutral during assembly, and used the sub trims on my DX6i for fine tuning the tx trims to center. Been perfect for 6 months now.
I can't imagine how the tail feathers got warped, but I hear soaking foam parts in hot water makes it go back to it's origional manufactured shape. There's you tube video's about that trick.
I stuck my Orange RX receiver to the side of the fuse, in that area that leads to the cockpit. It does not interfere with battery installation, and I can see the bind light thru the windshield good, I like that.
I didn't need to move any control rod tubes, just slide the wires in and hook em to the ez connectors on the servo arms (after centering the arms on the servo's with the radio gear on of course).
I dunno.... mine has been perfect so far, and i've been flying it almost every day for 6 months.
Im confident that once you get er dialed in, you'll be very happy with it. The hot water soak trick will make your tail parts perfect again.
Just out of curiousity, did you buy it on ebay, or from one of the online stores ? Dennis

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HI! Freeonthree... glad that your Cub was perfect, unfortunately mine was as described in the previous post.

Yes, I know that the wing could come off taking only the screws from where the landing gear is attached and the top screw of the wing but, something I didn´t mention is that the screw heads (those 2 actually) were pretty soft on the heads and it is hard now to get them to move with my screwdrivers... will try and find some at the hardware store to replace them (metric).
The foam in the elevators is fine, what is bent is the wire that holds them together and the control horn... I have tried to bend it some but without putting too much pressure as the foam starts to give out. I already had to repair a crack in it.
I also put the receiver in the cockpit and can see the bind light, etc... that is not a problem. Use ArtTech 11.1 1300 mah batteries and they fit but slanted to the back... actually you can see it part of it from the cockpit... the plane seems to balance OK with the equipment the way it is so I will leave it as is. I also had to change the plug from the ESC to a Deans plug - no problem there.

Will give it its maiden tomorrow and I´m hoping that it´ll fly OK... hopefully it will fly as good as yours but, if it doesn´t, still have my good ole "Diamond 1800" which is sweet.

I bought the plane at the Hobby Store in Santiago, Chile. I live in Reñaca, Chile now and that is about 90 miles from Santiago... Started the hobby in New York in 1971, lived 30 years in Greensboro, NC where I did a lot of flying - RC and Real airplanes - and now I am retired here, at the beach, but have not been able to give up the hobby... have a nice field and a group of very nice people to fly with. RC guys are the best...
Stay well...

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Well, don't give up on it please. These Cubs are totally dependable once their dialed in good. On my battery door, I cut a notch out on each side of the door so the wires hang down under the plane, and I can plug or unplug them with the plane on it's wheels. Makes it super easy to deal with, not having to stuff it all in the battery compartment. Dennis

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Thanks... I´ll post a flight report... have had cubs before and they all flew great so I am hoping that this one will be the same.
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It looks very nice. Im sure it will fly fantastic. It will be worth it in the end im sure. Dennis

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The Cub flew well[8D] ... brought it home in one piece and I am ready to practice with it... couldn´t get it to "grease" a landing but luckily the landing gear took the bounces... one thing that I need to control is that, at least for my fingers, it is very touchy on the ground at take off (too much rudder effect?), taxi was OK.
It seems like it flies better at half throttle, do you notice the same on yours?
How do you keep the spinner from falling off?... mine lasted one flight - luckily I found it. Thanks.

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I havn't been here in a while. Mine flys fine at full throttle, but im usually just below that for longer flight times. Im on my 5th or 6th set of wheels now because I love landing more than flying. I got away from the foam wheels now so maybe I can get better life out of them now.
I don't log my flights, but I surely have way more than 200 flights on this thing now. When all the gas and nitro guys are messing with their planes, im slamming packs and flying mine. Im really spoiled with this electric stuff now.
Aside from wearing out alot of wheels, this Cub has been trouble free so far. Dennis

Hey has anyone upgraded to a bigger esc and motor? How much weight can this plane carry inside the fuselage? I want to play around with a gyro.

thanks

Hey willig,
I was looking for a decent size plane for my home area where I have a nice 55acre farm adjoining my property. The Flyzone Super Cub fit the bill. After reading all the threads & postings on several forums, I decided to do all my mods as I assembled it. I removed the cowl & motor & epoxied the inside of the fuse nose, especially around the steel motor mount. I removed the ESC & decided not to use the flimsy wire landing gear. I ordered a Turnigy Aerodrive DST 1200KV motor & Turnigy Plush 30A ESC from HK. Also got a couple APC 8 X 6E props. I fabricated an aluminum landing gear from an old "STOP" sign as it is tempered aluminum & flexes like a shock absorber. I used the 2 5/8" tires from my Sensei hoping for better grass handling w/takeoffs & landings. I added CF strips to the horiz. stab & made struts for strength.

When the new motor came in, the orig. motor mount plastic adapter fit the new motor perfectly with hole alignment. Installed the new ESC & a Spektrum AR400 Rx. A Zippy 3S/25C/1800mah battery fit in the battery bay easily. When it was all done & ready for maiden, I went to our club field where it is very open. The grass takeoff was almost a disaster as the field hadn't been cropped for a few days & the Sensei tires bogged down a bit. With a hand launch, the plane had plenty of power, climbed well, & only a couple of clicks of trim were needed. It flew nicely at half-throttle giving me 10min of flight w/3.74v residual left & 1125mah to recharge. I set my timer to 12min of cruising & used 1560mah.....all was well other than takeoffs/landings in grass. The following week, a trip to my LHS produced some great 4" foam "tundra" tires that did not change CG or flight characteristics & made grass takeoffs/landings a breeze. I managed to get 3S/2200 mah batteries to fit after removing the Velcro from them & now my cruising flight times are near 15min cruising. All is well now. Here's some pics...

Additional note: I had to reduce the rudder travel to 50% on my Tx as the rudder had excessive travel & now turns much better. Also, I used an E-Flight collet spinner to attach the prop.

Denny

I just got mine assembled. I removed the 18amp ESC and bought an e-flite 30A esc and installed it. Also removed the Tactic receiver and installed a Futaba 6 channel receiver in it's place. Went to go maiden it this morning but the winds were way to high. Looking at the Horizontal stab the stabs are drooping and I bought some carbon Fiber rod and will glue it on the bottom to get the stabs back to vertical like they are supposed to be.

Glenn