if your alierons are down like flaps, and then in knife edge it will push the plane toward the canopy.


If your alierons are up, and in knife edge it will push the plane toward the wheels. Yes moving the alierons will help knife edging, but at the way your doing it its probably going to hurt your vertical performace. Because just about everyplane made has some sort of knife edge to elevator coupling.


Here is my opinion on setting up your plane..

To get the alierons in the right spot, you want to fly your plane from left to right or right to left first, about 1/2 throttle.

Then pull a vertical line directly in front of you. Then watch what the plane does. Watch if it pitches toward the canopy or wheels. You will probably need to do this several times. This do it from the opposite dirrection, and see if still pitches toward the canopy or wheels.

If it pitches to the canopy. then your the alierons are to far down, and need to screw out on the clevis about a 1/2 turn on each one.


If ithe plane pitches toward the wheels. The alierons are up to much, and then need to be screw in your clevis about a 1/2 on each side.

Once you make the adjustment, flight it again in the process above, eventually you will have a plane that will fly vertical with almost no correction, if you have your thrust set correctly.


As for CG, you will want to set your CG to where you fly the plane right side up, and the flip it inverted, and have to give it just a tad bit of down elevator to keep it flying level. when you can do that your CG is dead on.

As for thrust you want to be able to fly the plane, directly in front of you on a vertical up line, and it doesn't move off of its course from left to right. most of planes have to have a small degree of right thrust.

Only work at 1 thing at a time. I would do it in this order.
thrust,
CG
ailerons.