National Aeronca Association Bulletin Board

Just found this at a friends website. The new Cub sure has a nice looking cockpit!

Spit Boy, Spit..........


How could you post such a vile and despicable image on our pureblood Aeronca site.

Hah !

Mike

p.s. just put a low bid in on nice Colt - taildragger of course...

I know but there might be someone with a Champ out there who wants to improve the way their cockpit looks.

Colt?? Son, only Colt worth owning fires a .45 shell!

It's very nicely done for a modern airplane, but if I had a Cub I would prefer the older style. Thanks for posting though.

Anyone who has a panel like that most likely has spinning wheel covers. I guess I am a purist but that panel should be in a Honda Civic not a Piper Super Cub. I know Cub Crafters is trying to "hip-up" the sales but that would definately turn me away....

DC Krog

I'm with DC. Recently, a local young pilot came into my hanger to look at my progress on the Champ. The first thing he wanted to know was where is the GPS and nav/com going. What about the transponder and encoder, where will they go.

When I told him the plane did not come with an electrical system he was stunned.

Dennis

Most students learning today are doing it with glass cockpits or atleast steam guage cockpits with elecronics and GPS. They are not learning basic airmanship or navigation principles. What is worse is that most of their instructors learned the same way. Unfortuntely there are not many taildragger instructors around and even then a student to get their license in a taildragger, they need one with the electroncis. It would be nice to see old basic flying schools across the country for those that have their certificate and really want to learn what the birds are still trying to teach us.

What is ironic is that most new LSA airplanes all have electrical systems and therefore elecronics while I have to jump through FAA hoops to put a starter on my Champ for safety reasons. Common sense should prevail, but it does not.

Doug

UGLY.............

I'm with Joe on this one. It looks clean and functional a good marriage of old and new.

The other way to look at it is strictly from a nostalgic, stick to the original, restoration route. Both have their value and and deserve respect.

Course look how many of us have our cockpits in as close to original as possible and then hang the new stuff every which way so we can enjoy the added safety and convenience they offer.

To get philosophical, I think in the end it depends on what you want out of the plane. If your pride is in flying a vintage plane in exactly the way it was originally conceived than you would want to keep it true to form. As I have built hours with mine I find great pride in flying a vintage plane but also like having that added safety and have added the GPS and handheld in awkward places. I find I'm used to it cause I don't know better until I fly a friends eurofox and discover how nice it is to have the GPS and radio where they belong....

Ah well the endless debate. We do that with our motorcycles too don't we? The traditional american v-twin iron vs. the japanese and german machines that last a whole lot longer and often cost less.

Well, not much nostaliga in the dash but I kind of agree with Ed: where to put my handheld GPS and radio does get to be a problem with out looking like a electrician's night mare so the little GPS sits on top of the dash with a piece of velcro and the JRC radio is installed in a home made bracket. On the other hand, when I owned my Cherokee, it seemed keeping the radio, transponder, etc. was a full time job $$$$$. Great plane, but...........!!

My other 'mode of transportation' is a 1979 Honda 500 CX. Still runs great!

Mike

Tacky, tacky!

Looks like a computer game.

I think I would become ill after having to look at that very long!

Flight instruments and engine instruments intermingled and not grouped on the same side--not to sharp. Yes I know it is supposed to be a VFR airplane--BUT--But--This is an accident waiting to happen if they get into marginal weather. The way the other stuff is outlined looks like a madams garter in an old western movie with a whore house.

Doug

Center Stack looks Great, ....Black circles look Stupid.
What's with that other black stuff around the pull knobs???
Looks like somebody's DNA, who approved that Crap?
I agree with Krog, looks like a (20 year old) Honda Civic.
But like I said, Center Stack looks Great.
Jim

Guys keep in mind, this a SportCub built in 2008

nkh

Grumps; when the weather turns bad, where do you look?

nkh