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Postby Blade01 » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:11 pm

How to perform a knife edge, ive been trying to practise it for ages now,but i still cant do it, can anyone help, many thanks
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Re: knife edge

Postby Canuck. » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:32 pm

how to perform a knife edge.....uhh.....1 quarter roll to the left or right...so youre wings are vertical.....then apply enough rudder to keep youre altitude!

eg. rolling to the left requires right rudder
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Re: knife edge

Postby Canuck. » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:40 pm

if you fly online.....i could show you how to do a knife edge
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Re: knife edge

Postby Mictheslik » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:28 am

How to perform a knife edge, ive been trying to practise it for ages now,but i still cant do it, can anyone help, many thanks


That might be a problem if you're in an aerobatic display team ;)

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Re: knife edge

Postby ozzy72 » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:08 am

Look under FS2004 on this page http://www.simviation.com/fshelp.htm for my aerobatics tutorial which covers everything you'll need to know ;)
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Re: knife edge

Postby Mictheslik » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:10 am

Another thing...why is this in multiplayer...shouldnt it be in flight school....and is there not already an identical thread over there started by fsnovice???

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Re: knife edge

Postby Sytse » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:41 am

I don't think that FS flight models are accurate enough to be able to fly a nice knife edge. There may be some add-on aircraft that are able to do it though... I've been trying to fly knife edge lots of times, but even full rudder won't keep my nose from dropping down. Very different from the stuff you see at aerobatics shows.
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Re: knife edge

Postby C » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:55 am

I don't think that FS flight models are accurate enough to be able to fly a nice knife edge. There may be some add-on aircraft that are able to do it though... I've been trying to fly knife edge lots of times, but even full rudder won't keep my nose from dropping down. Very different from the stuff you see at aerobatics shows.  :-/


I doubt the lift component generated by a fuselage on its side would have been modelled with any degree of accuracy in FS.
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Re: knife edge

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:47 pm

Hence why you rev the nuts off the engine Charlie ;) ;D
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Re: knife edge

Postby C » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:03 pm

Hence why you rev the nuts off the engine Charlie ;) ;D


Surely if one revs the nuts off, the bolts will fall out... :P ;D
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Re: knife edge

Postby ozzy72 » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:09 am

I don't believe in mechanical sympathy ;D
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