Originally Posted by willie
At high altitude that reduction of attack angle may be as much as negative 10 or 20 degrees and will result in a number of thousand feet loss of altitude.
- no way Jose! Unless you have been indulging in some aeros or a major upset, a reduction of a few degrees is sufficient to silence the stick shaker or at worst to unstall the wing - to pitch 10-20 down from a normal high level stall AoA of around 5-7 degrees would be horrendous and would upset me as well as Tyro, spilling our 'retired' G&Ts in First and would
undoubtably "result in a number of thousand feet loss of altitude" if not bits falling off the a/c
Anyone who has spent any time doing max performance manoeuvres will tell you that too much buffet in a max rate turn goes away IMMEDIATELY you relax the pitch a fraction. A little finesse is required and a wing that is unstalled is....well, a wing that is unstalled.. Certainly anyone getting 'used' to your 'high-level' technique will probably cause certain death in a low level eg approach stall.