I did an App which is tab-based. Nothing needs to be on landscape mode but a couple of views. It worked OK on iOS5 and I was pretty happy with the result. However with iOS6
From Apple's documentation for shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:
Override the supportedInterfaceOrientations and preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation methods instead.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIViewController_Class/DeprecationAppendix/AppendixADeprecatedAPI.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIViewController/shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: