Happy Dog wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in

Both are irrelevant. You use brakes during a soft field landing unless
conditions, rare conditions, prohibit them.

Just the opposite. You don't use the brakes during a soft field landing
unless rare conditions require them. You typically will have all of the
deceleration you need from the drag of the wheels in the soft field.


Your practical experience doing this is? What's the length of the field?
Again, *most* of them are short (2500'). And most turf strips are firm
most of the time.

I learned at N38, which was a fairly short (1899' sticks in my mind)
field prior to an upgrade of the airport in the mid 90's. The airport
had trees at one end and a road across the other. The sole runway was
9/27 (it is now 10/28) and had a grass runway beside the asphalt. I
flew everything from 150s to 182s on both the grass and asphalt. There
was no reason to use the brakes when landing on the grass nor was there
a need to use soft field technique, or even short field technique.
Anyone who can't land even a 182 on 1900' of grass runway without brakes
needs to learn better landing technique.

I learned from an instructor who has about 50 years of instructing
experience and more than 50K flight hours. He was written up in the
back of AOPA Pilot several years ago.

What is your practical experience? Are you even a pilot?


Matt