SAVAGE CARBON - STOL REALISM MOD
A more powerful, stronger and meaner Savage Cub, retrofitted to be a true bush machine.
The Savage Carbon is a custom backcountry aircraft built to be a versatile high performance stick and rudder bush machine. She excels at STOL yet flies with XCubs.
She’s a load of fun. She’s also a fully featured and well-tested study level bush bird.
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WHAT'S IN THE BOX
The Full Backcountry Experience
Bush machines are extreme machines, often pushed to the edge of their performance envelopes. Always wanted to fly one? Get the Savage Carbon for the most authentic STOL experience possible...short of flying the real thing.
The STOL stuff
- 29" Alaskan Bushwheels.
- 165HP Edge Performance engine.
- Water skiing.
- 82" Whirlwind GA-200L-STOL propeller.
- Wider wheelbase
- King Shock absorbers and upgraded suspension.
- Powerful disc brakes.
- Execute the Knife Edge aerobatic move.
- A 3rd monster flap (60 degrees!) so you can fly slower approaches, with higher sink rates, giving you 15ft landing bragging rights.
- Flaps move faster so you can pump them for short take offs and retract them at touchdown for maximum braking power.
- Flaperons...using 25% aileron as flaps
- Ground handling is what you would expect from a purpose-built backcountry aircraft: Lift your tail, propwash left and right, brake on a dime.
- Vortex Generators on wing and tail are accurately simulated, delaying stalls and enabling those slow STOL approaches.
Other features (non exhaustive)
- Full CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- 20 Custom Liveries.
- Flight model parameters like parasite drag, induced drag, flap drag and lift, moment of inertia along all axis, P-factor, propwash, torque, weather vaning, gyroscopic precession and more have been tuned to recreate that unique bush plane thrill.
- Modern Prop Physics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- 100% Custom lights with powerful landing light.
- Enhanced Night VFR lights inside the cockpit.
- Rearward facing landing light (“Torch” switch) for team leads so others can follow easily.
- Parking brakes added (previous choke lever).
- Cabin Heat defrosts windshield.
- The CG has been completely reworked by correctly positioning all simulated masses in 3D space, resulting in a stable and natural feeling aircraft.
BE A SUPPORTER
This Savage Cub to Savage Carbon conversion mod is free and always will be, but if you enjoy it and feel you want to contribute towards this ongoing project it will always be appreciated.
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INSTALLATION
- First of all make sure the default MSFS Savage Cub is installed, this mod depends on it
- Delete older versions of the Savage Carbon mod, if any
- Extract the ZIP file
- Drag the folder named gotgravel-savage-carbon directly into the Community folder
- Restart the sim
- You'll find the Savage Carbon in your hangar all the way to the right near the default MSFS Savage Cub.
If done correctly, your folder structure should look like this:
/Community
/gotgravel-savage-carbon
/RTC
/SimObjects
/Official
How to find the Community folder?
- If you changed the default location of packages, it’s the simplest because you should find a Community sub folder in it.
- For Steam, it should be located in C:\Users\[Computer Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightDashboard_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
- For Windows Store C:\Users\[Computer Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
SUPPORT
I have multiple threads on various flight sim forums and websites (including this one) and it is not possible for me to respond to queries on all of them.
Support is therefor exclusively provided from the Got Gravel Discord Server (https://discord.gg/4f3j4YgNm4) through the "Got Support" channel inside the "Got Friends" category.
THE TORCH
The “Torch” is a unique rearward facing landing light, similar to what was installed on Draco. When turned on (there is a switch in the cockpit), it will be easy for others to spot you from behind. Great if you are a team lead for a group flight!
SWAP YOUR PANEL
Choose your panel! You will find 5 panels to choose from in the swap-your-panel folder.
SWAP YOUR AIRSPEED INDICATOR
Choose your ASI face to be white or black! Select them from the swap-your-asi folder.
AUTOPILOT
The Savage has no autopilot installed (you will find none in the cockpit), but for your convenience I did tune and test the configuration for a relaxed experience. However, it is disabled by default.
To enable, follow the simple instructions below. You will also need to setup and use your own keybinds for autopilot on / off state, altitude hold and heading hold if you haven't done so yet.
- Go to your community folder
- Go to gotgravel-savage-carbon / SimObjects / Airplanes / Asobo_Savage_Carbon
- Open the file engines.cfg in a text editor
- Go to the last line and change the 1 to 0 (DisableAutopilotControls = 0)
- Restart sim if it was running
CREDITS
- The Carbon Savage is an ongoing project by Got Gravel.
- Flight testing by experienced real-life pilots avaricooper and roketJsquerl.
The Savage Carbon is now available on the Freeware section of https://www.got-friends.com/
1 years ago
GotGravel
This is now extremely squirrely on the ground regardless of how gentle I am with the power.
1 years ago
Spud59
Gracias por el update! Excelente avion!
1 years ago
Mcveg
Thanks for this mod and for the updates!
1 years ago
fStopper
Updated to v2.1.0:
- Updated flight model with improved CFD
- Refined control surface reactivity
- Much improved ground handling
Check out www.got-friends.com for more cool aircraft.
1 years ago
Hi, thanks for your work and such a great Mod. Really like it. But I've seen something is wrong with landing light. This shines forward and backwards and make two spots. Don't know if it's real or if it's missbehaviour.
Update:
I didn't know where I have had my eyes. I've should have read the text better.
Have a nice week and a happy new Year. :-)
1 years ago
PistonPilot
GotGravel
Great plane and the mod makes it even better.
1 years ago
Quassel89
Back camera is setup incorrectly, actually just shows instrument panel instead of looking back out of the aircraft.
1 years ago
Intentional. On all my aircraft the "back" or "down" button looks down and shows the full instrument panel. I find this far more useful.
1 years ago
GotGravel
omcnoe
great thx !
1 years ago
Medoze
Can anyone comment on how to get the Airspeed indicator to read accurately?
1 years ago
No issue here, ASI is accurate. Try running this mod without anything else in Community, likely some conflict or a livery that does something odd.
1 years ago
GotGravel
SlowPoke
And your cub has been updated!
- Full CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- Retuned and refined flight model
- Control stick ground roll and engine vibrations
- Gauge needle vibrations
- Cockpit light fixes
- Improved suspension
- Custom thermo dynamics
- Tailored AoA lift wing profile
1 years ago
Airspeed indicator seems to read way lower than acutal.
1 years ago
SlowPoke
GotGravel
In order to fly straight and level in cruise I am having to apply a constant amount of right aileron. Is this intended? More info on the discord server under Flight Central/Chit-Chat-Cabin - unable to locate the support area on Discord.
1 years ago
Hi David, pardon my late reply. Support is now available in the Got Support channel in the Got Friends category on my Discord server. I have updated the description of Savage Carbon so this is reflected.
Regarding your question, you likely have Auto Rudder in MSFS enabled, which cancels all torque. The problem then is that a fixed aileron tab on the Carbon is now compensating for a torque roll that no longer exists. If you disable Auto Rudder you should fly kinda straight at cruise speeds.
1 years ago
GotGravel
davidk64
can this plane land without a ground loop? I can't do it.
2 years ago
Bring the stick backwards while braking.
1 years ago
mattswe
petey1
Very nice mod, right now Im building a cockpit panel for this bird.
Though Im having trouble with the AP. Activating the AP seems to also activate altitude hold. Heading works with heading bug adjustments. But changing altitude and setting VS does not. So I thought Id check Discord as stated above (was hoping for some help). But there are no faq or Support channels there. Are they removed? Any other place where you can discuss this mod?
Anyway, 5 stars for a really nice mod.
2 years ago
mattswe
I love all your products but my favourites are the VERTIGO and the NX Monster Cub with a Lycoming 313i.
Would it be a possibility to add Garmin avionics in your tail wheel bush planes as well? I am not fond of tail wheels, but I do want to try your products inspired by Mike Patey's innovations.
It would be quite helpful to have in-plane Garmin avionics for long bush flights instead of using the ugly map navigation windows covering a lot of screen real estate in MSFS.
Please do consider.
And THANKS A MILLION for all your generosity, kindness and time.
P.S: Is there another aircraft on the horizon from you great guys?
2 years ago
+1 on having a Garmin GNS530 installed in the Savage Carbon. However, I use to print out a piece of map and nav log (using SkyVector) and then I navigate with map, compass and stop watch. Lots of fun.
1 years ago
mattswe
ZILL
This is an awesome modification, nothing beats low and slow bush flying in MSFS. Thanks guys for your time and effort!
2 years ago
pikofix