Just so this interesting discussion doesn't stop here...
Two relevant factors I have heard are:
- The flatter AoA-CL curve means a swept wing aircraft needs a larger pitching movement to acheive the same load factor.
- Many (not all!) propeller driven aircraft display a rather significant trim speed reduction with application of power; in plain English, they tend to pitch up when you apply power. A jet with rear mounted engines will usually not do that. Nothing to do with swept vs. straight wings, but almost all props are straight and most jets are swept...
The result would be that applying power and a rather gentle pull would arrest the sink rate of a straight wing prop aircraft, but would only drive a B727 (or a Citation...) faster into the ground.
Another result of the flatter CL vs AoA curve would be that a swept wing jet could develop a high rate of descent with a nose up pitch attitude
without being close to a stall, and such a rate of descent could be hard to detect in time if one is only monitoring attitude.
Take these three aspects together: high RoD with nose up pitch, slow spool time of some jet engines, and the need for a more aggressive pull on the yoke, and we have gone some way towards explaining why unspooled approaches can be more dangerous in a swept wing jet...
Now, standing by for someone to explain what I got backwards, and hopefully learn something in the progress...
