Rudder pedal & diff braking steering
With regard to C172, which has very limited amount of nose wheel steering with rudder pedals, and always requires differential braking when making turns, what is the technique used?
From what I've learned, on the ground while taxiing, the heel of the feet should be resting on the cockpit floor & the balls of the feet on the lower part of the rudder pedal for steering. This prevents "riding" of the brakes.
But on a C172 this rudder pedal steering is only good enough to maintain straight taxiing, but not turns. During turns, on top of full rudder pedal deflection, differential braking is required.
What technique is used in this case?
Slide the feet up to operated the brakes after full rudder pedal is pressed? Or
in anticipation of needing differential braking, put the feet in the "brake pedal operating position" (heel not resting on the cockpit floor) and using the entire feet to operate the rudder pedal to full deflection then brakes?