| 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.
User Reviews
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Write a reviewSpud59
This is now extremely squirrely on the ground regardless of how gentle I am with the power.
Mcveg
Gracias por el update! Excelente avion!
fStopper
Thanks for this mod and for the updates!
GotGravel
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.
PistonPilot 1 month(s) 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. 😊
sonicviz 19 day(s) ago
Loving the latest update to this and the Grravel.
I did notice, however, on both these now when you go above 40MP FS Realistic General Turbulence setting really starts shaking them around. Had to turn it off for these two, but it wasn't happening before iirc. Possiblyt CFD related?
Raised it here on the FSR thread, maybe the FSR dev can chime in: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fs-realistic-was-just-released/469119/642?u=sonicviz
Quassel89
Great plane and the mod makes it even better.
omcnoe
Back camera is setup incorrectly, actually just shows instrument panel instead of looking back out of the aircraft.
GotGravel 1 month(s) 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.
Medoze
great thx !
SlowPoke
Can anyone comment on how to get the Airspeed indicator to read accurately?
GotGravel 2 month(s) 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.
SlowPoke 2 month(s) ago
Figured it out, Had to install the knots ASI into the default Savage cub. when I did that it worked. Weird.
GotGravel
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
SlowPoke 2 month(s) ago
Airspeed indicator seems to read way lower than acutal.
GotGravel 2 month(s) ago
No issue here, ASI is accurate
davidk64
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.
GotGravel 2 month(s) 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.
petey1
can this plane land without a ground loop? I can't do it.
mattswe 3 month(s) ago
Bring the stick backwards while braking.
mattswe
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.
ZILL
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?
mattswe 3 month(s) 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.
GotGravel 2 month(s) ago
Cheers!
And yes, there sure are new aircraft on the horizon. Announced ones are the mighty Wilga, as well as the Mini-500 single-seat chopper. More are being worked on behind the scenes 😉
ZILL 2 month(s) ago
Thank you for responding. Please see that the Garmin G3X isn't navigating on GPS mode in the Monster NX Cub. The same Garmin G3X works perfectly well in the Vertigo. In the NX Cub, it always has a northeast bearing, no matter what the flight plan. Please check and fix it.
Thank you.
pikofix
This is an awesome modification, nothing beats low and slow bush flying in MSFS. Thanks guys for your time and effort!
WhiteGinger3000
I have only flown this plane for like an hour and holy moly is it just a beaut to fly! It handles very well as well as it being extremely good for STOL landings, something that I have just started to do recently. Don't even get me started on how it feels while in the air with the added CFD.
darshonaut
This is my favourite Savage Cub Mod 😊
GotGravel
Updated!
- Added CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- Increased induced drag a little
- Reduced wheel brakes a little
TOXICTATER 4 month(s) ago
Is it still over powered?
GurtTractor
Do you plan on integrating the new CFD capabilities in SU9 into the flight model? Thanks.
GotGravel 9 month(s) ago
Yes, flight tests have already begun.
GotGravel 9 month(s) ago
And...done
GurtTractor 9 month(s) ago
Wow thanks so much! You da best 😉
lawlegge
Just a reminder to update the version number in the 'manifest.json' file.
Here it shows version 1.8.0, but shows 1.6.0 in the manifest.
This thing is sooo much fun. Thanks for everything you do...
GotGravel 10 month(s) ago
Thanks for the reminder, slipped my mind..oops! Updated internally 😉
Klaatu
Thanks Again !!!! 😊