Newps wrote:

The POH is not the place to go to attain max performance for something
like a soft or short field landing.

I would still prefer what the POH says to any amount of advice heard during
hangar flying and/or read on internet. Moreover if an instructor says
something that contradicts the POH and/or the Airplane Flying Handbook,
that instructor would have to come up with a really good explanation if
s/he wants to see me as a customer again.

--Sylvain