The topic is a little obscure. But I have been working on knife edges, and I find my planes very tricky to hold in a good knife edge. I also have been practicing on a flight sim and the big difference is how a plane is balanced up/down.

With landing gear hanging down, it seems almost impossible to create a 0 up/down balance. The net effect of this is that once you put the plane in a knife edge, you not only have to keep feeding it rudder, but also a slight amount of aileron, because it keeps wanting to right itself. Combine this with a little elevator to actually get the plane to fly where you want it, and I have my hands full.

So my basic question is, does anyone else worry about this stuff, and balance a plane up/down? Or do you take the easy way out and rip off the landing gear? Or do you do the hard thing and get good at the sticks?

Larry