In terms of flaps, basically if you're not going to be cruising more than
75 knots (unballasted) most of the time, it doesn't really matter if you're
in a standard or flapped ship. Effectively, a standard ship has two "flap"
settings built into its airfoil; thermalling and cruising. The cruising
part is in the order of 0 to a couple positive degrees of flap, where the
smart German engineers figured you will be flying the vast majority of the
time. So if you're going to be flying in stronger conditions, above MC 3,
you'll notice the difference. Otherwise, they're practically identical.

Regards,
Daniel Sazhin

At 14:05 16 October 2013, wrote:
Good feedback.

So, I'll run this by my CFI-G and some more of my club mates.

Here is where I am now:
Discus 2b
ASW-27
a distant third: SZD 55-1
long shot: DG 303 Elan (this is probably a DQ due to A/D spar issue)

In my research, it has become clear that the Discus is pretty much the
best
standard class you can get.

For the 15m class I like the ASW for some reason, even though the Ventus
2
seems to win many more championships.

I'm open to comments and advice from all, especially if you have flown
any
of these ships. I'm going to make a buy decision in the next week or
so...hopefully.

Thanks for the help!