cdenora
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I have recently finished my cub restoration and came out great , I made a great friend who help me finish it and we flew the cub for over 35 hours now since full restoration.
We flew the cub with 2 persons and it was pretty good, the only thing we noticed was that on flying solo, the trim had to be full down and the plane still wanted to climb a little, other than that the plane flies hands off , and with 2 passengers the plane is trimmed a little over half way and still flies hands off , the W/B came out all good just as it was in the log books, the cub is not all original, has float fittings , a light wood baggage compartment, a c90-8 with a metal prop, and 2 wing tanks, I just installed grove brakes on it, everything else is pretty much stock.
I would like to have some spare trim to play with when solo, I am filling the primary tank so it can make some counterweight and require less correction,I just want to make sure its all OK, although we did a bunch of stall and spins and the good thing is that the plane does not want to spin easily you have to force it in so I guess that is good.
My question is can it be something off with the rigging ?
Or can the weight and balance be off ?
Is it normal to use up all the trim ?
Im totally new to cubs and would like to have it fly as normal as I can get it to, so sorry if Im asking something stupid, but Im in mexico and there is only one other cub that I know of.
I hope I can get a good feedback here.
regards
christian
We flew the cub with 2 persons and it was pretty good, the only thing we noticed was that on flying solo, the trim had to be full down and the plane still wanted to climb a little, other than that the plane flies hands off , and with 2 passengers the plane is trimmed a little over half way and still flies hands off , the W/B came out all good just as it was in the log books, the cub is not all original, has float fittings , a light wood baggage compartment, a c90-8 with a metal prop, and 2 wing tanks, I just installed grove brakes on it, everything else is pretty much stock.
I would like to have some spare trim to play with when solo, I am filling the primary tank so it can make some counterweight and require less correction,I just want to make sure its all OK, although we did a bunch of stall and spins and the good thing is that the plane does not want to spin easily you have to force it in so I guess that is good.
My question is can it be something off with the rigging ?
Or can the weight and balance be off ?
Is it normal to use up all the trim ?
Im totally new to cubs and would like to have it fly as normal as I can get it to, so sorry if Im asking something stupid, but Im in mexico and there is only one other cub that I know of.
I hope I can get a good feedback here.
regards
christian
