Chuck
I am not saying the Maule cannot do a wheeler landing , merely that Mr Maule and many Maule pilots I have talked to feel that the Maule is more suited to a 3 pointer in cross winds and based on my limited experience I would agree with them. I’m an extremely low time TW pilot, my total TW experience since buying the Maule a few years ago was basically jumping in it and trying to self teach for the first 100 or so hours then getting at total of 25 dual TW instruction/endorsement in a Maule where I demonstrated wheeler landings to the satisfaction of the CFI. I can and do practice them regularly on no wind days on long tar runways, but I am not comfortable doing them on my short, rough grass strip that often has surface water.
Regarding the approach speeds, I guess I made a dogs dinner of explaining my question, what I am trying to get to the bottom of is given that it is advisable not to use full flaps in a gusty wind and that I have a feeling that the final 2 notches 40 + 48d feel that they provide significantly more drag but no noticeable lift can I assume that the published VS0 speed remains the same pretty much from 24d (TO setting)thru 48d (full flaps)