OK, Enough Flappin' n Slippin'....

[GRG55]

The last word on this?

Apologies to Big Joe Turner (and the Downchild Blues Band, among others)

...Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time
Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time
Now love me baby, till the feelin' hits my head like wine...

...Now slip, flap and fly
I don't care if I die
Now slip, flap and fly
I don't care if I die
Ah, don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye.​

 

[BrianNC]

So, in the interest of science, I decided to have a friend video me while I was in the pattern applying full flaps during a turn, this was my base to final turn, piece of cake.

 

[jsstevens]

Nice stabilized approach. How was the landing?

 

[Shepherd]

When I fly something with flaps, I do it.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Not to mention using brakes on the runway with a taildragger...

If you touch the brakes in a tailwheel on the runway you will most certainly die!

 

[BrianNC]

 

[Fearless Tower]

Me! In an EMB-120 Brasilia, going into DFW one night. FO was flying, had her hands full. Of the airplane you pervs!

But did you die???

 

[GRG55]

If you touch the brakes in a tailwheel on the runway you will most certainly die!

And probably twice as fast if you do it in a piston twin taildragger.

 

[GRG55]

When I fly something with flaps...

Stop braggin'.
It's against the rules around here.

 

[mscard88]

But did you die???

I pulled!

 

[Hank S]

Yeah. The loss of 'lift,' the vertical component of it, requires back pressure to maintain altitude or a consistent rate of descent. Putting in flaps requires forward pressure to maintain speed or a consistent rate of reduction to a desired speed. They offset each other somewhat.

Depends on your plane. Lowering flaps makes the nose of my Mooney go down. I pull back on the yoke, then retrim after releasing the flap button.

And I drop flaps in a turn, sometimes. She speeds up a lot in a simple 500 fpm descent, and I'm not always down to the white arc before reaching the airport, in which case I drop flaps whenever I'm slow enough, and that is sometimes while turning downwind (from either direction).

 

[luvflyin]

Depends on your plane. Lowering flaps makes the nose of my Mooney go down. I pull back on the yoke, then retrim after releasing the flap button.

And I drop flaps in a turn, sometimes. She speeds up a lot in a simple 500 fpm descent, and I'm not always down to the white arc before reaching the airport, in which case I drop flaps whenever I'm slow enough, and that is sometimes while turning downwind (from either direction).

Yeah. Good point. I’m a Cessna guy. I’m going to edit that into that post