My memory always remembered it as a relationship to a reynolds number of the apparent flow
Sort of...
Reynolds Number simply refers to the scale speed regime used when testing the airfoil in a wind tunnel (ie proportionality). Interestingly, the calculation of the Reynolds Number also brings up the issue of inertia, another factor ignored in the discussion so far (as it relates to energy, critical angles and stalling).
If you get into that stuff, you soon realise that most of the explanations of stalling given here are simplistic in the extreme.
For example, my notes on aerodynamics show that a stall is defined as the point at which Cl starts to decrease, in other words being on the "back" of the drag curve is to be technically stalled. That would imply that a high RoD caused by being at a high AoA at low airspeed (ie low energy) is simply a stall without the associated symptoms that pilots are taught to watch for.
It is also true that the critical AoA varies with differences in aerofoil thickness (with the same camber), and the symmetry of the airfoil (symmetrical airfoils having a lower critical AoA), and so on.
So yes our friend in Bankstown was technically stalled, not that this is the point of the discussion...
Everyone's a fecking genius when it comes to an aircraft incident, aren't they
Beats being a fecking moron...
But no, you are right, we shouldn't discuss this stuff. Heaven forbid that anyone might actually learn something... can't have that, can we... after all, the only thing that really matters is whether the guy walked away from it, right???