On Aug 16, 10:26*pm, toad wrote:

Joe Pilot didn't put the flaps there, Bob the designer did. *He had a
"purpose", which was probably to lower the stall speed and thus the
approach speed and all the other good things that come from that.

Perhaps. But this *is* a pilots' forum and we all know that -- from
the pilot's point of view -- the world revolves about him, end of
story. I mean if it wasn't for glider pilots, there wouldn't be much
point in having glider designers. Ergo, Bob put 'em there to be
useful to me, period :-).

-Evan Ludeman / T8