Why do the Alaska bush pilots use the wheel landing when competing in the short landing contests if the three point is a better method?
When landing really short in the DC3 or say the Beech 18 I always found wheeling it on at the slowest airspeed possible and on surface contact forward on the elevator control to pin it and put a load on the tires so I could use max braking was the preferred method to short land.
Maybe I was doing it wrong for all those thousands of hours flying the things?