Jack wrote:
If I can survive 140 hours in a flapped
ship and not just survive but love it... so can you. They're not
dangerous, just different.

I have had similar good experiences with a flaps-only for
glide-path-control ship. In this case an RS-15. After only 22 hours
of flying anything I took my first flight in the RS. I found the ship
very easy to fly with almost docile handling characteristics,
especially at low speed. Several good things happen when the flaps are
deployed during the landing pattern: 1) stall speed decreases, 2) pitch
stability increases due to the increase in "longitudinal dihedral", 3)
any tendency to tip stall decreases due to the effective increase in
washout. Also, I have never forgotten to connect my spoilers nor have
I ever had spoilers accidently deploy while in flight. I'm not
knocking spoilers, they work just fine. But a flaps-only ship can also
be a real pleasure to fly.

Regards,

-Doug