On 4/25/2007 6:11:13 PM, "Blueskies" wrote:

Leave the flaps down for soft field so you don't dig in. Raise the flaps
on asphalt or other good braking surface for max braking performance on a
short field while keeping the stick back...

That's how I learned it and IIRC, that is how Cessna lays it out in the
procedure section of the POH for the newer model C172s (the relevance here
being that this was the aircraft in which I originally trained).

--
Peter