Happy Dog wrote:
Brakes are used during a soft field landing where the point is to put as little weight as possible on the nose gear. Try again.

Dude - your original assertion (above) was ridiculous. ANY braking will
put more weight on the nose wheel. That's what I was responding to.
Hell, even George P. is backing me up here : )

you don't use short field technique because you want to TD as lightly as possible

Short field technique doesn't necessarily mean a carrier landing-type
touchdown IMHO

You really don't touch the brakes doing this on a 1500' grass strip?

Now you're being more specific. On a familiar grass field, of course.
(I'd never fly into one that short (personal minimums) I fly a T-tail
Lance, definitely not a short/soft field plane. Maybe in a taildragger,
but then I'd never use the brakes (or even need them for that matter)

in case you forgot or are too dense

Are you this obnoxious in person?