Hi all... I think I thought of an analogy everyone would understand...

Flaperons are a mix that makes ailerons behave like flaps... if we combine elevator into the mix, then we can still call them flapperons..... right ???? ;-)

Gliders are aircraft that are not powered.... If we combine an engine with the glider we can still call it a glider .... right ???

Although airplanes behave like gliders when their engine stops, it is still a lazy, misleading, and technically poor to call a plane a glider when it's engine is running.

So, 3D flyers ARE using flapperons mixed with elevator often.... whoopeee! But, to take a well defined term, pervert it to be something else, and then have the audacity to tell the rest of the world that they are wrong!!!!! That's outrageous!

To all the 3D flyers out there, there are some people in the beginner's forum that are giving you a bad name! Did you hear me? Makes it easy to generalise that 3D Flyers are arrogant, lazy, and should be relegated to outlaw fields doing unnatural things with their planes ......

When people start mis-using words then [link=http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/searchFlick.cgi?word=fanny]very wierd things can happen[/link].

Never know what you might be telling people.

gus ....

P.S. This post is mostly meant in jest, but the point is serious.