HarryMann: Even PC sims like X-Plane can simulate post-stall behaviour reasonably sensibly.
PBL:The aerodynamicists involved in designing large commercial jets emphatically do not agree.
Type1106:Contrary to some comments above, the flight simulator [of the VC-10] did a good job (and still does) of reflecting the whole stall and recovery process - not absolutely the same but good enough to train before the air test.
Point taken. I really wasn't thinking of 45-year-old jets that are no longer in commercial service, but of what Boeing used to call "third generation" aircraft. I was thinking in the present, and immediate past, tense and should have made it clear, say by saying "modern".
PBL