Tinstaafl
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No. It's whatever one works for Cessna - as written in their POH where they specify the technique to be used. You're on a hiding to nothing **IF** - & I emphasise the 'if' - you have a prang & then have to explain to the insurance company (and possibly the lawyers) why you chose a different technique.
We've all used various techniques but ultimately if something goes awry then we haven't a leg to stand on if we haven't followed the specified techniques. Unless good airmanship would dictate otherwise, of course. Good airmanship is something that would then be argued in the courts using the test of 'a reasonable man'. You would have a hard time arguing that a reasonable man would choose to use a technique different to the one the manufacturer specified.
As far as I can see, your only hope would be where the manual specifies to '...close the throttle...' (or words to that effect). You MIGHT then have the argument that it doesn't specify the rate to close the throttle, which would leave you with some leeway. If however, as I recall, the wording is to pass through 50' in a glide then that argument is a non-starter.
There are times when a squirt of power is needed to arrest sink or correct a ballooned hold off or due to shear etc etc. No argument about that. None of these times are related to the controllability of the aircraft type in question during a normal landing.
We've all used various techniques but ultimately if something goes awry then we haven't a leg to stand on if we haven't followed the specified techniques. Unless good airmanship would dictate otherwise, of course. Good airmanship is something that would then be argued in the courts using the test of 'a reasonable man'. You would have a hard time arguing that a reasonable man would choose to use a technique different to the one the manufacturer specified.
As far as I can see, your only hope would be where the manual specifies to '...close the throttle...' (or words to that effect). You MIGHT then have the argument that it doesn't specify the rate to close the throttle, which would leave you with some leeway. If however, as I recall, the wording is to pass through 50' in a glide then that argument is a non-starter.
There are times when a squirt of power is needed to arrest sink or correct a ballooned hold off or due to shear etc etc. No argument about that. None of these times are related to the controllability of the aircraft type in question during a normal landing.
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