Originally Posted by
sky9
I'm just an old retired pilot.
Couldn't the same effect have been achieved by inputting nose down elevator? At least the crew would be kept in the picture and no lasting aerodynamic input would have been involved.
That probably would have been the preferred option, however the elevator feel system cannot accept these inputs. I know that this is a very long thread, but this has been gone into in some depth earlier. Search for posts by FCEng84, which are particularly authoritative and illuminating.