"All I did- after the autos jumped off- was to try and hang onto the attitude.
Couldnt read the ASI (!), but pulled some power off to slow down a bit. Accepted the vertical speed the Cb gave us, (in our case it was downwards) and just concentrated on the attitude. Wings level, didn't trim, kept the AoA at usual value."
Well, somebody finally said what I've been wondering for 123 pages of posts. Back in the Dark Ages when I learned to fly (mid-1960s), we were taught that what you did if you flew into Cunim was 1/maintain attitude and wings-level, 2/hold pretty much the power you've got, and 3/ignore altitude. Nobody ever said much about airspeed, which took care of itself if you did 1, 2 and 3.