okay I was just wondering my Taylorcraft is one of the very few to have flaps. my f19 never did ,so when landing on a soft field, where there was a chance I would nose it over i would add power on landing in order to hold the tail down.

My question is for the sake of argument and opinion is let's say for example, you are landing in say 6 inches of snow with a good possibility of nosing over. Is that possibility increased or decreased with the use of flaps all things being equal.
At least in my airplane with full flaps 30°. The tail seems to get light obviously we all know that slower is better, but just wanted to hear everybody's two cents worth.

Thanks

Y R right, flaps make tail lighter.

I would make my approach with full flaps to get as slow as possible and be ready to dump flaps and hit the gas if needed or to drop to one notch and hit the gas to take off again.

I seem to have good tail authority until the last notch is applied, and I can approach just as slow but it requires better planning.
Having said that though I would think that touching down tail first would be your best shot. Some times I mess around and try to hit a mark mid way down the run way and I am always tail first playing with the throttle, and then kind-of plop the mains down which by then is very slow.

I would say the main thing is if the snow is more than a 1/3 the height of your tire don't screw with it.

if i had to land knowing there is a good possibility of nosing over, i would use full flaps, airspeed as slow as possible with control, feel for the tail to drag, drop the mains and be ready to dump the flaps if necessary, be on the throttle if needed. it seems to work for me here in the Pittsburgh area!!!

Make 2 or 3 or 4 passes and pack it down, keep a little speed up and use that last notch of flaps and all the power to get back in the air if you get a little to deep, also if you are in to deep you already have the RPM up and the flaps down and the stick back, witch in MHO is what you want when your moving and getting stuck at the same time!
GT

M6RV6 wrote:Make 2 or 3 or 4 passes and pack it down, keep a little speed up and use that last notch of flaps and all the power to get back in the air if you get a little to deep, also if you are in to deep you already have the RPM up and the flaps down and the stick back, witch in MHO is what you want when your moving and getting stuck at the same time!
GT

Right on the money... Besides when it happens, it's kinda all of a sudden, and gettin on the throttle is most important..