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Old 03-31-2008 | 07:44 PM
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Default Spoilerons or Flaperons?

Ok,I fly off a short paved runway with an equally short approach to it that requires loosing alot of altitude quickly making it hard to slow down for landing. You have to clear the tops of the trees first,then dive down and hope you can get slowed down enough to land on the pavement and not overshoot it into the rough(hard on cowls and props). So I want to experiment with either spoilerons or flaperons on my Big Stick .60,then maybe my little sukhoi 31,and if all goes well I could use is on my new edge 540. So, if I do decide to try this.....what would you pros recommend? I'm kinda leaning toward spoilerons because I heard the plane wont glide as far. Its easy to glide the whole length of our runway if your going too fast. But I'm not sure if spoilerons would slow me down as much as flaperons. I also hear flaperons can cause tip stalls more,but this is likely the least of my worries as I usually cant get slowed down that far if I wanted too,lol. So,what do you think considering my short approach and having to loose alot of altitude in a short distance?