The thread is about flaperons and spoilerons and not really flaps, two different things all together. I use flaperons A lot, at least on my fun fly planes. I use them for stunts and different contests and they work great and are A lot of fun. As mike pointed out though, if you are landing with them I have found my planes tend to want to stall A bit as the speed slows down too much and the ailerons aren't responding as fast as they would if they werent deployed. I have mine on A switch and they are the slave to my elevator so as my elevator is going up my flaperons are going down. This is A fun way to get my spot landings real close, I stall the plane right over the X while inches off the ground. In A dead stick float I get A whole bunch of hang time and on very windy days I can even fly backwards. This is on A Hots, not an Extra, Fun Fly and Having Fun Flying, not good for everything. I put real flaps on Cubs and other scale type of planes, not flaperons, they are different. A lot depends on the plane itself.