We allowed the 8 seconds based on the probability that the crew would have been surprised by the stick shaker and may not have reacted immediately. However, when we attempted recovery we did so with max available thrust but pitch was limited by the available elevator control due to the immense amount of nose up trim.
We were somewhere around 1200 to 1300 feet AGL when we initiated the recovery.
One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand, eight thousand. Still seems a long time to allow for the deer in the headlights aspect and the recovery altitude would tend to suggest you did not have anywhere near the same amount of excess speed to bleed off as the accident crew, so being slower you managed to incur enough nose up trim to guarantee an accelerated stall on recovery a lot quicker and higher on the approach than they did.
I wonder if anyone else attempting this could confirm if it is possible to fly the aircraft out of the stall with something less than full power but sufficient to arrest the descent against the nose up trim yet without using so much power that the nose pitches up beyond the capacity of the trim system to maintain a level attitude?