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I had a conversation with my instructor/partner in our PA32R-301 (SP) today. While we were doing power off stalls. During the recovery I first reduce a notch of flaps and then brought up the gear (obviously after adding power). He astutely said the POH says gear first. I have about 1500 hours in PA32s. The first I flew was a 1979 Lance back in the 90's. The Lance manual also says gear first also (OK, I'm dork I keep a manual for every plane I've been checked out in). My instructor back then had spent thousands of hours in P32s moving checks back in the day. He said it was better to do one notch of flaps then gear then the other two notches of flaps. We tried both ways in our plane today and it seemed to clean up/climb better getting rid of the third notch of flaps first. To us the third notch had much more drag than the gear. I figure I could get about 20 opinions on this! 
Frankly looking for some real word input. As I said I know what the manual says.
Frankly looking for some real word input. As I said I know what the manual says.
