I found your comments interesting and spoke to a perspective that forced me think beyond my own experience when it comes to flap management or control. You ask is anyone has ever damaged the flaps on an RV by deploying at too high a speed. Probably. In my experience, however, the chance of that happening is unlikely, even improbable. That is because the airplanes I am most familar with have been fitted with a momentary switch to control the flaps. On my Cessna 150, the (momentary) flap toggle was located on the instrument panel. On my RV's, the (momentary) flap toggle is located on the joystick grip. Because this is so, it is highly unlikely a pilot would activate and intentionally HOLD the flap switch down long enough deploy the flaps beyond a few degrees of deployment. Beyond that, flap deployment serious enough to risk structural damage would have to be intentional act. Heck, the unexpected pitch change alone should alert even the most clueless pilot! That leads me to ask the following question and I don't mean to sound at all flippant about it....just curious. What is so wonderful about a flap controller? Here's the scenario: You are flying the pattern and slowing to land. Somewhere on downwind or base you find your airpeed about 115 MPH. You would like to slow down to Vfe (100 MPH) as soon as possible to make a normal flap landing. With the momentary flap switch, all you have to do is "tickle" the flap switch to deploy 2-3? of flap and that excess airspeed will quickly bleed down to Vfe. Alternatively, a flap controller gives the pilot no such option. No doubt, a flap controller holds a rightful place in aviation. Some airplanes are better served with one. But we are flying lightweight RV's here. We wear it as much as we fly it. Same scenario only this time the RV is fitted with a flap controller. Activating it, the pilot must accept a minimum of 10? of flap deployment take it or leave it. So again I ask...when it comes to flying RV's, what is so wonderful about a flap controller?