ORIGINAL: SushiSeeker
I know many folks don’t like flaperons as they can induce tip stalls on landing.
Recognizing this fact, are there applications where they are beneficial, for example on takeoff? My thought is that in this case you have full throttle and if you do tip stall at least you don’t have to first transition to full power. Flaperons are so easy to set up, it seems a waste not to have good flaps on a plane…
Like Mike said, very few model planes benefit or need this on take off.
Tip stalling with flapperons on landing is usually one of two things. Too much downward flap deflection, when some aileron is added to correct for roll and you stall the downward deflecting side.
The other issue is wing tip ailerons versus strip ailerons. On wing tip ailerons I absolutely would recommend against using flapperons because tip stalling is almost a garantee. If using full length strip ailersons its ok except as stated above.