Short vs Soft Field Takeoff and Landings

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:32:37 -0800, Peter Duniho wrote:
Some soft field may be a LOT softer than whatever the aircraft designers
had in mind.

A soft field is when you can be stopped and apply full power, but your
aircraft will not move... grin

If the wheels sink down to the point where the wheel farings are resting
on the ground, it's past the point of being a soft field and you should
start considering floats... While I was waiting on a hangar space to open
up at one time, I was stuck parking my plane outside... One of my neighbor
planes discovered that armadillos tunneling underneath your wheels is not
a good thing... His aircraft was resting on the wheel pants after the
armadillo's tunnel had collapsed under his wheels...