If I fail, I will end up low, slow and dead shortly thereafter. If you aren't prepared to adopt this attitude, you have no business using flaps. It is imperative that the pilot does not bleed so much energy that he loses maneuver options. The technique used by many of Air Warrior's hottest pilots is to use flaps at the top of a combat loop, following the merge. At near-stall speeds, flaps can make the difference between hanging inverted at the top of a loop and being able to pull your plane's nose back down below the horizon.
Some planes benefit more from use of flaps than others.
Those with incremental flaps usually benefit the most. All rights reserved.