Originally Posted by Vessbot
(Without the ground there to cue a reaction first, there's every reason to think they would have continued pulling back all the way to the stall warning/shaker/limiter/whatever.)
I doubt it. They ONLY reason they kept puling back was to reach the runway which was in plain view straight ahead. The AF447 crew had no outside reference to entice them to pull back, they were simply climbing and slowing down, and as they did the jet trimmed back for them. In a normal aeroplane, the nose would have dropped if the pilots had done nothing.