@Kay Pam, I would suggest that in a stall, the instinctive airmanship bit is to dip the nose as soon as the stall becomes apparent. The memory drill part, if there is one, would be to then check the aircraft config and thrust setting.
Flying a hold: Instead of using the heading bug to indicate your hold axis, why not use the VOR beam bar. As you know, an auto-pilot in HDG mode will follow the heading bug, so for flying big jets you will need to point the heading bug where you want to fly and relearn a system for flying holds that enables you to visualise the hold. One normally uses the VOR beam bar anyway - it is useful for indicating the join, the hold axis and the abeam point, as well as the VOR radial tracking when inbound, (assuming the hold is referenced to a VOR, obviously).
Regarding "obvious" memory drills, a senior TRE in a previous airline forgot to raise the gear when he and his F/O had a real EFATO in a 757 one day, so a check of the gear became part of that airline's EFATO drill.
@RetiredBA/BY #123, good post
