"William W. Plummer" wrote in message
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Faced with any emergency I will always perform the POH procedure first.
If
that fails, I'll get creative.

I think a better rule (borrowed from medicine but equally applicable to an
aviation emergency) is "First Do No Harm."

If the POH procedure is ambiguous and might refer to a no-wheels situation
but the pilot instead faces a no-nosegar situation, then I do not agree the
pilot should immediately follow the POH which may or may not apply to his
situation. A judgement call on the part of the pilot is quite appropriate
here, and that judgment may or may not apply to this situation.

An excellent analagous situation is one I posted about earlier: engine
failure. My POH only addresses "engine failure" and does not distinguish
between partial or complete engine failure. Surely you will agree that a
partial engine failure in a single-engine airplane should be treated
differently than a complete engine failure -- correct?