Originally Posted by s bakmeijer
what i had learned initially on jet is to discon.ap/ats accept alt loss where performance is limited, and lower nose + use lift improvement devices etc.
but now its initially nose-horizon, let that baby drop just to recover lift on wings.
I don't think that is quite what is going on. I take it you are speaking of an unaccelerated stall, at Vs1g. C_L increases right up to the stall break, but after a certain AoA it is likely that it increases only slowly (I don't know which specific airplane you are talking about, since you haven't said).
If you actually got the sim to Vs1g at altitude, you cannot necessarily expect it veridically to reproduce the behavior of the actual airplane.
PBL