Originally Posted by CaptainSandL
"Landing Gear Extended Descent
The rapid descent is normally made with the landing gear up."
The QRH emergency descent is a copy of the AFM which takes precedence over the FCTM. The AFM/QRH is specific to the airframe and many 737's with winglets actually have a different emergency descent procedure that includes gear down (to meet JAR/FAR certification requirements). As CaptainSandL correctly points out (Plan 1) FCTMs does not reflect this and the rapid descent description may actually be contradictive to AFM/QRH for some winglet B737s.