Originally Posted by techgeek
A) a fully developed flat spin
B) a straight ahead "deep" stall
and why two experienced airline pilots couldn't recover from it.
Some colleagues in a 330 simulator, I say again,
in the simulator, tried to exit from a
full stall situation ... Very harsh, some managed, but most didn't. Slats out helped and one even used max thrust on one engine only ... Is the simulator representative of real life ?
For fuel economy, the 330 adopt an aft CG in cruise, and this does not help in case of stall.
Don't forget that a 330 is supposed to be protected from a stall, the most you usually do is to train up to stall
entry and recover, or if in normal law, you watch how the protections work to avoid a stall and maintain alpha max.