A37575, So true, When flying the heavies the make up of our pilots began to change from ex military to civilian trained pilots, many of who had not had the chance to fly upside down at the taxpayers expense, it became evident during sim sessions that we had to train for upset recovery to take care of this problem. We developed a system in which we would point the aircraft straight up or some other direction and without pre briefing watch the recovery efforts of the pilots, it was an eye opener! Some tried to push over with the resuling negative G and all the interesting thing that this would produce, engine flame outs, hyd pumps cavitating ect.Once we taught the "one G' roll towards the horizon recovery, things improved to the point that all our pilots were flying out of these situations without any problems, then came the Airbuss with its bank, pitch angle limits! Has such restricting the pilots contoll authority improved safety? In the case of well trained crews I think not {see threads re stall recovery put out by Airbus}In the case of the crews cranked out by some of the training systems today , it may have , unless of course the do get inverted or into a stall at high alt which might require some basic skills they lack , and the aircraft wont let then do it anyway.In the past even in light aircraft inhibiting the handling of an aircraft has not produced a safer uncrashable aircraft, the Aircoupe being an example of this. much simpler of course than the Bus.