Scenario: Your airplane swerves left, you apply right rudder to stop the swerve. Then, lots of rudder. But it’s not enough, so now you need brake. Where is that heel brake? Taking your foot off that rudder pedal to reach the brake isn’t the best.....but with heel brakes, it’s what you’ve got.
Personally, either heel brakes or toe brakes require some training and discipline. With heel brakes, you need to be able to find them, sometimes fairly fast......not that tough, but an acquired skill.
With toe brakes, you have to learn to land with your heels on the floor, and just your tippy toes on the base of those pedals, or someday, you’ll push on a pedal, trying for rudder and get a bunch of brake.
The key to either is figuring those issues out. Once you do that, they’re both easy enough to master.
And, recently, a gent I was flying with reminded me of the perils of toe brakes and big feet. No harm, I screamed “Off the brakes!” Rather loudly, actually.
Pick one and learn its quirks. They’re both good systems....When set up right......
MTV