Flaps? I tried flaperons, didn't like them, mainly because of the nuisance of getting them back on center. If I took off with the flaperons being one click off center, I couldn't tell whether my flaperons or my elevators were out of trim. So I disabled the flaperons, got my elevators trimmed right, and moved on from there.

I put in the flaperons after a couple first-day flights in which my idle speed was a bit too high, and the Venus did not want to come down out of the sky. It would coast along the length of the field at 12" altitude, essentially in ground effect. I should have worked on getting my idle down, but instead I elected to try the flaperons. I think that will be my last experiment with flaperons. They may be OK on an Ultrastick, but not on a pattern trainer.

So my advice is, get your idle speed down; on landing approach, keep your wingtips level and your nose down; if you put your nose up, apply a jog or two of throttle and push the nose down again; don't pull up elevator until you're whisking the grass.