Fireflybob..............
"Decreasing airspeed, reduced control effectiveness, high nose attitude"
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The comment about your late father was lightly written ... Hector was one the finest men I ever met and the best instructor.
If you do a test today with the CAA, you will be asked to recover (in the appproach configuration) at the first sign of "an incipient stall" ... I have given the answer ... no more and no less.
Do it otherwise and you fail. 