"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
The vast majority of soft fields are short turf strips. You need brakes
to stop before the end in most GA planes, right? I say use the brakes
until you have full up elevator and the nose starts to get heavy. There
is no reason to avoid using brakes when doing a soft field landing on
firm ground (as most of them are). And that's what it looks like the
A320 pilot was doing. You will know, within a second of TD, whether the
ground is soft enough to cause braking-like friction on the mains and you
will brake accordingly. 2000' of firm turf says you do.

A turf field isn't always a soft field. A soft field is a description of
the condition of the runway at a particular time, not a description as to
whether it is a turf runway or something else. Most turn runways are only
soft fields after a very lengthy rain or during the spring when the spring
thaw is occurring in areas where the frost goes more than a couple inches
deep. You don't use the brakes when landing on a soft field. You can use
them on a turf field, but you may or may not need to.

Turf field landings are soft field landings. Don't forget about gopher
holes. You were taught that a turf field landing is not a soft field
landing?

moo