[ghostrider20]

This is a plane specific question.
I had a grumman AA-1 and the flaps did nothing at all if very little. Never used them. For the guy who thinks Bob is nuts, where have you been flying???
I fly in South Dakota most of the time and the winds are 25 knots on a daily basis and gusts to 50 knots are weekly. Lossing 20 knots of airspeed is very common. Low and Slow, NOT ME. Try and get your speed back in a 150 with full flaps!

If I am in a light cessna, I only add half flaps, gives better rudder control on heavy cross wind days. If you get slow and full flaps like some sugest, you will drift of the runway.
And if you leave them down, a gust of wind can float you right back up or off the runway. I retract the flaps as soon as the plane touches the ground if it is a light single.