ORIGINAL: Hatty
I dont want to carry a lot of weight, so your suggestion would be to just choose a good airfoil instead of putting flaps on the plane. The extra lift generated is not worth adding a complicated and heavy flap system?
Don't think the complexity and weight of flaps helps at all on a lightly loaded airplane... slotted flaps usually are intended to increase wing area of a highly loaded wing, decreasing approach speeds and runway required. So now you can land and roll out in 10 feet instead of 12??
Another "issue" would be that further lowering a lightly loaded wing's loading makes it more susceptible to gusts on landing....
Overall... bad idea, IMHO...
HTH
Jim