Shy Torque that sounds like a good decision to me re the fully loaded flights. I imagine brown pant moments were fairly common.
You’re right about the pedals not been at full deflection. I’ve always thought that’s a different scenario and recovery is go to be difficult or near impossible. The 169 at the football field didn’t have much of a chance. Assuming pedal doesn’t hard over for failure I’ve always considered moderate jams more realistic as full deflection is uncommon for the vast majority of flights. Some types for control linkage failure will go to neutral position.
One thing I have always wanted to experiment with is cross wind with jams in heavier aircraft. In light pistons and light turbines the wind on the left(anticlockwise) makes a huge difference to the run on speed for a right jam. I’ve always wondered how effective it is in larger aircraft.
that’s something I don’t think the Sim models well it just seems to factor airspeed over the nose.