Line crews and stall training
Clandestino wrote:-
"And there's that inconvenient fact that some respectable individuals gloss over: if crew through action or inaction manages to get fully serviceable transport aeroplane into full stall or severe UA, chances are b***er-all that it will have presence of mind to apply appropriate recovery actions correctly and promptly."
Really? How about unload wing? They had, in relative terms, stacks of altitude. Why pull when a push would save them?
The FAA have a lot to answer for in the way stall training is conducted. The emphasis must be Full Thrust AND attitude, attitude, attitude.
For too long it's been Full Thrust and altitude, altitude altitude.
To my mind we train, at the FAA's insistence, on setting up a stall when we should be training stall recovery. In order to quantify a pilots ability to recover from a stall we have a set of parameters which encourage the very cause of this crash. Don't loose altitude so at shaker we have pilots pulling instead of unloading the wing.
Check the FAA Practical Test Standards handbook.