Originally Posted by
tdracer
But when pilots become completely overwhelmed and demonstrate the inability to even remember to pull the throttles back so they don't overspeed when something goes wrong, it moves us one more step in that direction.
As an aerobatics instructor, I can say with confidence that confronted with a difficult upset, every trainee WILL not even remember to pull the throttle back unless specifically trained for that.
We're talking of flying real airplanes, experiencing real spinning, gees, etc. not calibrated sim exercices with a warned crew.
And my trainees ranged from low time students to multi kilo-hour F117 pilots or airline captains. So...
Besides, confronted with a stickshaker alarm and severe AND trim at low altitude, retarding the throttles seems a rather odd idea... But I may be wrong.