Cougar users

[bramski]

tell us how it went, including the grease check. Cheers!

 

 

Ok, Grease was good, plenty of it and made sure it was all distributed around the gimbals nicely. Speed Brake housing is a little loose but nothing to really bitch about, dogfight housing feels good. Those throttle indents are a bit clunky though and Im thinking of greasing them down or removing them I've not decided which yet.

 

Bad news, ANT ELEV is knackered, very intermittent with data transmission and no indent unless I pull the grey ant hat down. I could send it back to Amazon but chances are I could wait all that time and end up with another just like this one as it seems to be a common fault in newer cougars.

 

Theres a simple fix for it on cougars world so I'll go to the diy store tomorrow and get a few bits n pieces for the cougar and I'll open it up and fix it myself. My wife thinks Im crazy for not sending it back and I suppose she's right, she also thinks Im crazy for talking to my computer and sticking infrared lights to my head too and I suppose shes bang on the money there as well :lol:

 

 

Apart from that it feels good, a LOT stiffer than my x52 but I'll get used to it, I only had a wee test flight in the 25T and I struggled a bit at first, especially with no twist rudder for lining up my landings and bombing runs but felt myself getting more precise after a wee while and only stopped to make up a profile for the 25t. I'll hook up the pedals from my DFP steering wheel in the meantime till I get a decent pair of rudders.

 

All I need to do now is get my head around the Foxy software and get myself some profiles made up for myself. It's gonna be a bit of a learning curve over the next week and it will no doubt eat into my flying time but it should pay back in the end.

[PoleCat]

Conratulations on your new Cougar!

 

The ANT pot can be fixed by following cub pilots guide on CW. This seems to be a common problem with the newer cougars. While you are at it you may want to adjust those detents out closer to the ends of travel. They are supposed to be Idle and AB detent and are set far to close to the middle for my tastes. Mine has about a half inch of travel from full off to the first entry click for the idle detent and about the same on the other end for the AB detent.

This is a print out of my current cougar profile. There are some modifications like holding S3 and TG1 for 5 seconds initiates a ramp start. (engines on, canopy close, flaps half, Nav lights on). Quickly pressing button T4 results in half flaps in all AC. holding the same button for more then .03 sec sets full flaps. If you want the profile let me know. There are great ones also available on CW.:joystick:

 

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[Kuky]

Quickly pressing button T4 results in half flaps in all AC. holding the same button for more then .03 sec sets full flaps.

 

How do you set 1/2 flaps on the MiG-29, Su-27/33 or F-15 as in LockOn they can have only none/full flaps positions?

[bramski]

I managed to fix the ANT ELEV by opening up the throttle grip and squeezing the pot casing and arms with a pair of pincer pliers thanks to cubs thread on CW, cheers polecat :)

 

Man what a real piece of hardware this is, I love it. I'm no where near as good with it yet as I was with my X52 but thats probably because I'm not used to the button locations and I dont have a good profile made up yet. I spent a couple of hours last night getting into the Foxy programming software and I've got my head around it so I'll have some profiles made up soon.

[159th_Viper]

Man what a real piece of hardware this is, I love it.

 

Agreed - Good Times :)