Flight Directors off for stall practice in the simulator.

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Originally Posted by FE Hoppy

Good luck turning them of on the CSeries. They come on automatically at under-speed and you cant turn them off until you are recovered.

So the only reason for that behaviour would be that the flight director actually gives useful cues to get back to speed. Sounds like a good feature for Airbus, kinda like a mental stick pusher for followers of the magenta line.