Mike,
Yes I had been using flaps occasionnally, but we don't have a straight approach at our feild where I can set up a nice rate of decent You have to keep your altitude above the trees on base and then dive it in on short final. Or you can kind of make a gradual turn towards landing kind of like the old Hong Kong Int'l airport approach. I'm more of a 'dive, then flare' type though. I've gotten used to it and the grass runway now so I don't bother with flaps anymore. I did fly the PC9 in a stiff 10mph gusting 25mph cross wind today and was really happy the way it handled it. Thank goodness I had the engine finally running good.
John