Originally Posted by
donner89
...How many times have we seen this occur in the sim?
Exactly, and I could never work out why the FTR was the button of death. So much so it became SOP to insist the trainees fly in ATT mode with hands off the controls and using only the trim switch (or heading bug when coupled) for manouevering the aircraft. That lead to far less incidents of turning upside down and punching holes in the ground. I could readily understand the accident pilot flying it into the ground if his prior training did not insist the aircraft be flown in IMC in this way.