Hi my father instructed on Chipmunks with the Navy for many years and he says that the correct proceedure for setting the brakes was whilst still on the ground to apply full rudder then apply the brakes noting the number of clicks required and each aircraft was different, you would then have to remember the number of clicks for that aircraft that you could apply as required and in this way you would still have full use of the rudder without any restriction, never any brake set on take off or landing, was supposed to add unless x wind and thats when you needed to remember the specific no of clicks for that aircraft
Last edited by gpugh; 5th December 2012 at 07:19.