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On Jul 7, 11:45 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

On landing the three point attitude provides some aerodynamic braking that
slows you more quickly, but, OTOH, you can't brake quite as had as you do
with a trike.

If proficient, you can brake *harder* with the
taildragger, depending. The trike, when braked hard, tends to shift a
lot of its weight on the nose, and that weight is coming off the mains
and causing them to lose traction. In a taildragger, you can get the
tail up immediately after touchdown, and use brake and elevator to
control pitch, and with lots of braking early on there's enough
elevator authority to keep the tail where you want it. It has to by
tail-high to stop the wing's lifting. The trick is to know when to
ease up on the brakes and get the tail on the ground.

Be VERY, VERY careful when doing this on wet grass!
It gets real interesting when the tail is up, the brakes are on, and the
mains are sliding down the runway. :-0