Suggested method to get some jet fighters out of a deep stall is rocking it out ( \m/
) of it. The elevator authority remaining won’t allow you to get the aircraft out, but you can get it to sway around the stable null point. Keep feeding the oscillations with elevator input, and eventually the nose will be low enough on the downswing to let you get out of it. There’s a manual override on the elevator control in the F-16 to enable you to do this. I’m hoping for someone to fill in on the exact name of the switch and just how the elevator works in that mode.
Stick pushers might provide a stall warning, but if that was their only purpose they’d still be stick shakers. Keeping you out of a deep stall is the thing which makes them a required item.
IMO, T-tails were largely a fashion fad, along with rear-mounted engines. Those two sorta go hand in hand anyway.
An advantage yet to be mentioned is that the elevator won’t blank the rudder in a non-inverted spin where having a bit of rudder authority just might come in handy.
Con is structural, having all that weight up there on that long moment arm. Look at gliders groundlooping, it is not uncommon for the fuselage to snap due to the torque put on it by the T-tail. OTOH, T-tails are generally preferred due to the fact that landing out in crop will have a good chance of damaging the elevator of a non-T stab severely.
G-ALAN, of course you were right.
Cheers,
Fred