FMS - Piper J-3 Cub - 1.4m - Maiden Flights + Crashes + Repairs + Final Adjustments
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Love the longer videos my brain wanders right along with Brian. Nice to be able to escape reality nowadays. Thanks for the awesome content guys thumbs up.
Excellent! So glad you enjoyed the video! Megan was not so sure about the welding, but I was 100% sure ;) LOL
Always listening to here how the pond and dam runway is doing. I thought I heard you say stay tuned for pond update. It might be time to do a video or a short on the pond project. Really proud of the way that you have made this hobby achievable for me. As well as my wife being an RC flyer as well. We are both noobs but enjoy flying just about every day.
Long format has taught me what I need to know. Thanks again for your time efforts and humor with Megan " camera crew" we are on 7 years married but I get the inside stuff
Thanks so much, and we have footage for the dam build ;) and we'll share it at some point, but they ARE back, and should be showing up for their 3rd day back at work. My excavator and his son are working for about 2-3 weeks and they're supposed to be DONE...but we'll see. To the novice, like me, it seems like there's so much to be done, but good-lordy-lord, they can get a lotta dirt moved in 6-7 hours of actual work!!!
Can't wait to share. We WILL. Don't worry ;)
"We have a rule about glitter in this house" Glitter is the Herpes of crafting!
1000000% - yes
"If you had good grass, why would you be doing this"
OMG!!! That was awesome!!
I wish i could come to the event and meet you and Megan... i have grown to love you and your family throughout these years and I am grateful to you for helping me enjoy the hobby. Thanks for your efforts love, peace and happiness
Thank you Mike! Coolbreaz - you aren't a PPG'er are you??????????? ;) That's a brand that sells PPG equipment, fyi, if not. Spelled (yeah, I speeled this word wrong at first - LOL) a bit different too, but even still.
Glad you're along for ride, and bummed we won't see you at Nall. Maybe some year?
I remember in the 50s we had loud motors and the planes went straight we would hand launch our big balsa planes and follow it in our cars out into the desert. So much fun but had to rebuild after each flight.
That's awesome! My uncle used to do similar "free flights" with his gas and pulse jet-powered planes back in the 50's and 60's.
@@JustPlaneNutzRC good times
That's CRAZY AWESOME!
Awesome video guys, I watched the whole thing. This is why I love your channel to help us get through problems or just fantastic tips that keeps us flying. From radio setup to foam repair your channel is so helpful. Thank you.
Happy to help! Don't forget welding your foamies - that's WHERE IT'S AT!
28:58 "Wonkadelic" new favorite word
I'm just glad you speak our "secret" language now ;)
Great video, guys! The welding footage was a riot!🤣 It had me thinking about your landing gear soldering repair from years ago, back when you lived in your previous home. You have defenitly upped your game! 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it - I knew someone would remember that...the NOSE gear on the T28 Trojan 1.2m - I still have that plane, and the SUPER disgusting ugly nose gear ;) LOL LOL LOL
...maybe I need to do a re-visit on it with newly RE-WELDED gear ;)
J3 cub by FMS, appropriately numbered, "OWY"! as Brian bounces it off the sod a few times 😂
I know, I killed it so many times! And yet, she lives to see another day...all you need is a welder, and a few hours to randomly stumble into a strange solution.
Welder - I didn't expect that
I've got a couple sets of landing gear I'd like to take a welder to.... maybe some day.
Best 8 mins 42 secs on youtube, btw 😂👍
I KNEW someone was gonna love that spot...I came into the office, all weld shop'ed up and the camera crew's eyes rolled HARD...she knew what I wanted, but she still made me ask for it ;)
"Film me in this helmet"
It was so hot...the welder.
Good night
That’s a THREE cell? Along with some of the other FMS planes I’ve seen you flying (and that one you let me fly), it makes me believe that FMS has seriously figured out power trains! (The first one I noticed was the 1400 P-40, which ROCKS, especially when compared with their previous 3 blade 1400mm fighters- I got those motors to install in them, like the FW-190 and Hellcat. Oh yeah!)
Great looking plane love them all ! Thank you for the long enough video for me to understand it over and over again it from every stand point even though I'm a beginner in planes I listen to the videos as if I'm one of the pros your talking too 😂any ways brian can you please make a airliner video like the ones in the past but the newer one like the 37 or something of that size and scale I would def buy from your site but I haven't seen a recent airliner video from you and camera crew can you please talk him into it if he second guesses 😂 thank you all enjoy
I would love to make just such a video, but we don't have an AL37, or a relationship with MotionRC, but maybe I'll reach out to RC-Castle again and see if they would like to work with us.
I love your videos Brian and Megan! oh and Brian, you are a great pilot :)
great flying and teaching. i didnt know you could couple controls electronically on the radio, i know that real planes can have mechanical coupling, so thats all i had considered. youre teaching a lot of new people about stuff that they normally wouldnt hear about for awhile. its cool that youre explaining that. but have you heard of differential aileron? each aileron has more up travel than down travel, that helps with adverse yaw. another one is " frise aileron", where the aileron has its leading edge ahead of the hinge line, and protrudes and creates drag as the aileron goes up. i dont know if any rc have these, i just have the two volantex mustangs. i want to add flaps and retracts
robbie, of the 72nd comment, and 269th like division.
yes, differential is a way of doing this, but you have to separate each aileron to their own channel, thus you'd be using up another channel. It CAN help too, so might be worth trying, and it's easy to do IF you don't mind giving up the channel. If you want to try it out, we've used differential before, but it's usually not a big deal...although, admittedly, this plane NEEDED some attention to get it flying, and the way I suggested correcting for the terrible coupling tendencies is pretty easy and radially available on most Transmitter systems, not necessarily JUST on Spektrum ;)
Also, if you separate out the Ailerons, you can setup flapperons, and/or spoilerons. If you're curious, keep watching, can't spend the time to explain it here on a comment, but we've talked extensively for hours and hours about this too, if you're curious. Watching our Unbox, Build, Radio Setup is where it's at for a newer or returning to the hobby, pilot...so we're glad to help!
The bolt on prop adapter can be replaced if bent, better than replacing a bent motor shaft with a collet type adapter setup. Your model seemed to have a bit excess down-thrust. Reducing weight of battery pack seemed to help get level flight. My Sig 1/6 scale J-3 flies better with aileron-rudder mix. Cub-like designs can have "adverse yaw" tendencies, need rudder/aileron coordination or differential ailerons ( up motion but little down motion). Differential requires 2 aileron channels. Cubs are not really stable "trainers" they require piloting.
yep
Cool -- I just ordered one two days ago.
Pretty please, do the mixes!!! Make it on the switch, and you'll see almost immediately what I'm talking about when you turn then OFF.
Hey Brian, I got my J-3 last summer. Our club is a grass strip, so I replaced the little tires with eflite Timber tires for grass ops. I flew it with the FMS stabilizer and felt that I wasn’t getting good control authority in SAFE mode, so I took the stabilizer and my AR620 receiver out and replaced them with an AR630 receiver. Not good! I experienced the wankiness you probably on steroids, complete with crashes. I wound up pushing the expo on the rudder to about 80% or 90%. It helped, but still feels like a handful. Thank you, I will try 1300 mah batteries and and add the mixes you suggest! Doug Coates, Bristol, RI
GOOD, now I don't feel so bad. Let me know if my "fix" takes care of your issues too. It was WAY worse than I would have every expected, and I felt like I "took the plane from the grave" with this little TINY fix.
Thanks for the feedback, and hope to hear from you soon as to what you figure out.
@@BrianPhillipsRC I am a private pilot with an instrument rating and owned a Piper Cherokee for almost 20 years. I no longer fly full scale. I started the rc hobby during Covid and this will be my 4th year. To be honest I fly in SAFE mode all the time because I have not felt comfortable not. I agree with how you felt the plane should be an amazing flyer and beat up on myself when things went badly. I damaged everything you did with the exception of the prop shaft and landing gear. After I removed the reflex, I couldn’t take off with getting into trouble! LOL! Now I know! Thank you again. 😎
Miss mine! Put the battery in the wrong spot on the maiden, prior to me knowing importance of CG... tip stalled after a painful turn from the takeoff.
Love that long format as you know.. lol O and btw nice plane he he..
Glad you like it - Thanks!
Hi Brian and Megan. I really enjoy your very detailed videos. Just a thought about the cub. If it is anything like the FMS PA18, it will be very well built but also very heavy for its size. I think the wing loading will be considerably higher in proportion to the real thing. Are the wings solid foam? I'm taking a bet they are. I have a hobby zone carbon cub (has lots of thick foam) which I consider too heavy for its size and, while it's a ton of fun, is disappointing next to my full sized Legend AL3 Cub when you consider gliding without power on a 3S 2200. The full sized cub has Frise Ailerons to counter the unfortunate amount of adverse yaw resulting from the design of the plane. Well done with putting in the mixes.
I wonder why they don't engineer that Frise Ailerons into this wing?
This model is super similar in quality to the PA-18 of both 1.3m and 1.7m sizes, but the PA-18 comes out of the box wanting to fly amazing...this one, at least in our experience, not so much...which weirded me out to no end! I think you're onto something with the higher than expected wing loading. That's maybe why the smaller 1300mAh 3S made such a big difference, then the mixes really REFINED it back into good flying behaviors.
Another commenter suggested adding DIFFERENTIAL, which I hadn't considered, since I don't want to waste the channel, BUT it would be pretty easy to change over to that configuration. We have the channels, but if I want to make mods, I'd want to also plop in some inboard flaps. I just love SLOWING down planes. Especially these ones that you KNOW would be just creeping by in real life...I know, it's weird that I LOVE slow in RC planes. I want slow so you can look and see everything working. I want slow, since it's easier to fly. I want slow to savor it as I fly by. I want slow for extra greasy landings. I want slow for better gear performance and easier on the air frame... I'm always amazed how many people aren't into slow - but then I see professional pilots... at or near 100% throttle the whole flight. It showcases most planes nicely, but I want slow ;)
@BrianPhillipsRC Thanks so much for your reply. I totally get where youre coming from. Slow is fun and I think you learn more from it too, as you can really see how the aircraft responds to inputs. When its fast, you can barely see whats going on. Thats why the majority of my models are balsa unlimited aerobatic ones. My favourite is my Precision Aerobatics Extra 260. Runs on 3S 2200mA. They have super light wing loading and love to float and glide. Much more like a full sized manned aircraft (well, at least my cub lol). They are also generally very well behaved and respond very precisely to inputs without much coupling or weird yaw.
Carbon cubs have the vortex generators that add lift at slow speeds, so maybe that's the difference flying without the vortex gens.
Yeah, there's a few differences ;)
bprc.me/CarbonCubS2 - very nice ;)
bprc.me/CZ_Cub - Extra, very nice!
ohhh i bent my shaft on the volantex 750mm mustang, on the first flight. quite bummed out about that, the beginner mode basically couldnt turn in the field i was in. realized too late. looking forward to see if you fix yours. staying tuned
I did it in this video, so hope you'll see what I did and emulate it closely to get back in the air. If you over-bend it, it may break, and it has to be pretty dang close to perfect, so take your time. If you have to dismount the motor to make the correction, put the shat into a drill chuck and spin it to see if it's straight before going through the trouble of remounting the motor.
Good luck!
P.S. that 750mm Volantex Mustang is HARD TO FLY. I would highly encourage you to consider a 1.2m P-51 Mustang from Eflite - you will be AMAZED at how much better a plane it is. If you need SMALL, but want a BIG plane feel, get the UMX P-51 - you will LOVE it compared to that 750mm, nearly impossible to fly disaster. I know from experience. I've flown a number of the 750mm P-51's and all of them sucked BADDDDDD.
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On mine I didn't have to do anything for it to fly great and really agile. All with a 3s 2200mAh. Tight battery fit but it flies fine. The small wheels thou, well that is not for grass ops. In the end I prefer the FMS PA-18 1300mm as it handles almost perfect and with the large wheels grass is great.
Me too. The PA-18 1.7m is AMAZING.
I wonder why mine was so dang wonky??? I had another guy report his was that way too. Wonder if there's a weird TWIST in the wing or something else strange?
@@BrianPhillipsRC Maybe just maybe it can be gyro related. I set mine up with a Spektrum gyro receiver and didn't use the Reflex gyro. Mostly to do a cleaner wiring setup.
Have you tried using the aileron differential? That can sometimes be very helpful when planes have too much adverse yaw.
I haven't and didn't want to waste the channel to split out the Ailerons, BUT we could do that - Good point. That being said, given this is fixed gear AND ailerons only, it wouldn't be hard to setup. Should have enough channels.
Biggest issue with needing differential, is that you don't KNOW you need it until it's all setup and working poorly...our mix can be added after the build is done, and you've come to the realization there might be an issue.
New to the aviation rc way. I have umx turbo timber evolution and how much would a compatible transmitter cost? And what transmitter needed?
about the threads, would tape around the threads interfere with bending the shaft? thats what i do for chucking screws in a drill to clean them up lightly on fine sandpaper
I wonder if you could just wrap a few rolls thick, then use the CHUCK to straighten it???
@@BrianPhillipsRC i have no idea. ill give it a try with a long screw. i forgot to say in this comment, thank you for showing how to fix my bent shaft. ill let you know how the chuck does if you dont already try it.
Really wish they went with the grasshopper paint scheme
That would be awesome too!
Hey could you please review the radiolink at10ii transmitter❤
I've tried other Tx'es in the past, but just NOT sure I'm ready to dive into another Tx right now.
@@BrianPhillipsRC Ok no problem
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thanks!
I watched the 8min and 42sec 🤣
thanks
Pull all the last 3 letters from call letters how successful can you fly with owy in the name. To owie !?!! Love you all and have a blessed day!!!! Verses OWY!!!
Thanks!
I hope my carbon cub flys better. Note haven't put it together yet waiting for better weather soon tho
It is WAY easier to fly.
bprc.me/CarbonCubS2 (I assume you mean THIS one...not the CZ Cub?)
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@@BrianPhillipsRC yes carbon cub s2
Not a sailplane but I love it! ;-)
But, it could tow one up ;)
Nice plane. But I’ll stick with my Carbon Cub. 😊
I think you're onto something there ;)
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I think the pilot is in the wrong seat. You're welcome!
The back seat would be correct, right? ;) LOL - exactly!!!
Wonk
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congrats
I like your videos, but this is far too long so I never watch it all. 20-30 mins is long enough, not enough time in the day.
Can't rush perfection, son.
@@meazy451 🤣 I know, but I am retired and you just don’t know how long you got left!
Can listen to Brian for hours to each there own.