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Old Dogs
1) Level the wings - more or less.
2) Put the pitch bar on the horizon - more or less.
3) Put the throttles in the middle - more or less.
4) Stop and think.
5) Try to figure out what the actual flight path trajectory is, using all available means. Either the aircraft is (a) going roughly where it’s pointing or else (b) it’s going downhill, probably quite quickly.
6) If (a): re-establish desired conditions; If (b): you are stalled and need to recover from that before doing anything else.