Originally Posted by
camss69
The only problem with this is if you really have to get on the brakes, you are probably moving pretty fast still which means down elevator could be lifting the rear tires, the ones that are supposed to be doing the braking.
This is the problem I ran into on one of my jets. My little BVM F-86 lands hot and if I want to get on the brakes good it will get real light on the mains and end up unstable and scraping a wingtip. I switched that one to a slider and can hold full back elevator and apply brakes and haven't scraped a tip since. My other jets don't have this issue so I have brakes on down elevator and can go full down with no adverse affect if needed. Really wish I could settle on one or the other for all planes. Would prefer to be on elevator for all the common reasons mentioned.