ORIGINAL: Barry Cazier
Flew the ST with the SFGs for the first time today. Made the airplane much "crisper" in response and easier to do some stunts but, surprising a little more difficult to KE. The KE got the nose so high I had to keep slowing the throttle down until it would finally fall out. Barry
Sounds like your mind is making you think you need more rudder input then you actually need with the SFG's on the plane. My guess is that once you achieve knife edge attitude with the SFG's you probably need to input a hint of negative rudder and then the plane will knife edge almost hands off.
My Sukhoi in knife edge flight needs only enough rudder input to correct it occasionally, never more then 25%, and that is in high alpha knife edge. At higher speeds in straight knife edge it needs only about 5% to go horizon to horizon. I should be able to fly my Showtime this week & I'll be able to give a better assesment then.