ORIGINAL: Erik R
Jack,
Respectfully,a clean wing flown at L/D max speed will always give you a better glide ratio than a wing with any amount of flap,or leading edge device deployed, at that respective L/D max speed.
Erik
+1, I'm not going TO flaps on dead stick.. You are introducing more lift but there is always some extra drag coefficient upon deploying flaps and you don't want ANY more drag on a dead stick. You just want to make the runway at all costs.