Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
I also tell my students that in the event of a forced landing in a retractable gear aircraft, the landing should be done gear up unless landing on a runway is assured.
Really? Misters Piper, Cessna and Swearingen (I have not flown retractables from anyone else) all have a different opinion on that. E.g. the emergency procedures section in the manual of a Pa28 Arrow, that I have right before me, calls for gear-up emergency landings only in case of very short of soft/wet fields (and ditchings). So there is not one procedure - and especially not one mnemonic - that fits all.