Newbie - Pleae HelpMe !! Trying To Fly My New Pico-Cub

[Mighty Mik]

What this thread needs is an ending...

And they all flew happily ever after!

[SJ]

Just shot a pic of my PC.....With my own super-dooper-ultra strong landing gear :-)
http://bornholm.adsl.dk/modelfly/

[leccyflyer]

Originally posted by crashnburn:
I replied to this post about a month ago, and it is nowhere to be found. Is one persons' opinions less valuable than anothers??? Seems to me that . . . . . .

Yes crash, your post dissappeared mysteriously along with several others in the great "What happened to the top of Page 8 mystery?".

That post, the text of which was (as it happens I saved the thread periodically) _

Is there no end to this?
Jerry is no longer a newbee, and his Pico Cub isn't either.
This has been going on for 5 months.
If the Pico Cub is so hard to fly, try something else.
This is ridiculous.
Crash

was complaining that this thread had gone on too long and should be shut down - would have been just before your complaints on RCO that the ezone was inhabited by a bunch of elitists.

How did it come to be deleted? Who knows?

The length of this thread is irrelevant. If anyone - especially newbies - wants to find out about the Pico Cub they have a valuable resource here to help them out. If anyone is reading the thread as it develops they have the option to skip to the last page. Nobody is making anybody read this thread. The alternative is answering the same questions again and again.

Perhaps if we had a "Which is best - Zagi or Razor?" thread permanently ongoing then that particular question would get asked rather less often.

Brian

[jerrysimon]

SJ,

God am I jealous That's a serious collection of planes. I fancy one of those Simprop PFLAZ 4's.

Your PC makes me nastalgic. Mine use to look like that before it got crashed and fixed hundreds of times.

When I move soon as I said I will have a whole workshop. Then I too may be able to have a collection of planes like yours. I will certainly build a new PC

Thanks for the pics.

Take care

Jerry

Originally posted by SJ:
Just shot a pic of my PC.....With my own super-dooper-ultra strong landing gear :-)
http://bornholm.adsl.dk/modelfly/

[This message has been edited by jerrysimon (edited 07-17-2001).]

[SJ]

Thanks Jerry.

I have also crashed my PC a quite a few times.
If I had a better camera, then you could see all the glue joints :-)

[Passing Wind]

Hello chaps,

I never had a "serious" crash with my cub until a few weeks ago, If you recall I moved to the south coast and turned my cub into a cliff/ridge soarer. well, I was enjoying some excellent lift off a southerly force 3ish, but after about half hour of soaring the wind swung around to become a westerly, and pretty quickly too. Alas my cub got blown downwind, bounced of the clift face a few times and exploded onto the promenade... although I believe nothing is beyond repair I just cannot be bothered with all those little pieces and look forward to putting the gear into my new twinstar : )

And if I can just echo what Brian was saying about this thread, I first flew an rc plane around the same time as Jerry and I thank him for starting this thread. It has certainly saved me a lot a trouble and given me a LOT of insight. like you say mate if you don't like it, don't read it.....and keep em coming.

[This message has been edited by Passing Wind (edited 07-23-2001).]

[AUSELECTRIC]

Have read most of the early posts made in this topic and believe that the lack of power was due to the 6 cell AA pack not due to the amout of cells (voltage of the pack) but due to the internal resistance of the cells in the pack.

Internal resistance will cause the voltage of the pack to drop under load.
If this voltage under load is to low the BEC cuts in and motor stops.

I do agree that it would fly better on 7 or 8 cells but possible to fly on 6 and understanding why the right batteries need to be used is an important step so successful flight

I can be found at www.skunkworx.com.au

[Mattydiah]

Talk about bringing a thread back from the grave.