I'm a rookie at 3d and most aerobatics, I've figured out a lot of the manuevers like blenders, elevators, inverted flat spins, and so on. I haven't been able to do the knife edge spin though. I was wondering if anybody out there could break it down for me. I'm sure it's not that difficult.

Some planes do it much easier that others --This is how I do it.

Climb vertical-drop power to about 10%

At the top stall turn to the left --full left rudder

As the nose of the plane gets ~90° go full left aileron

As the nose gets to 180°(straight down go full left aileron full up elevator)

At this point you will have to most likely get off some aileron and keep full up elevator and add power--some planes have a big sweet spot and some have a narrow one.

One cool way to get out of the KE spin is to go into a flat spin. I usually just shift my rudder to the right and let off the ailerons(depending on plane) and reduce power and inverted flat spin.

I just started doing these this season. There may be other ways to do it, but this is what works for me. I learned them by watching a Flying Circus video and then practicing on the sim. Of course that video is no longer available.

I'll give it a shot, thanks.

funtana 90 does them killer.. mine takes some coaxing to get it in but after that it will lock deeper than any plane ive owned.

My Yak will go into one easily from a regular spin..just enter into a conventional spin and when ready goto full down elevator

My FL330 has a very wide sweet spot for doing these. The F90 does them tight but has a little narrower (up elevator left aileron) spot. You can see how nice the F90 goes from the KE spin to inverted flat in the beginning of the Kyle Drop"n In video's

http://www.kyle.macapple.com/default_files/page0001.htm

I have a Composite-Arf 2x2. It does blenders, inverted flats, and harriers extremely well. Now I have something else to try with the Knife Edge spin.