Hi Bill.

Yeah, I agree with all you said. I had flaperons on one of my planes but never used them, maybe for fear, maybe for lack of experience at the time.

I did buy a Goldberg Wildstick 40 that had all of the above.. flaps, spoilers, and separate ailerons. I gotta say this, though, that thing did do some really tight loops and very fast rolls when a combination of the additional controls were used. It was fun to fly... I beat that plane to death.. still have it, and still fly it, in spite of the abuse that I gave it... but this isn't about the Wildstick, it's about flaperons.

My main point is that it can cause some issues if you have a plane setup with sedate control throws, then add flaperons may run the control to it's limit and you may lose that effectiveness. I experimented with it and just didn't see a need, but that's a personal thing.

CGr.