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Old 22nd Jul 2011, 05:54
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Now imagine you are pushing the nose down to recover the aircraft from the stall, and airspeeds becomes valid, and you get to 30 degrees nose low, and abnormal attitude law wakes up!
If they had done that soon enough and initially got rid of the 15° pitch attitude, the AoA would have been approx 20°. Application of a bit of thrust while still continuing to take the nose below the horizon would have quickly brought the AoA into the CL regime. The problem would be to avoid an over (-)rotate and risking another high AoA trying to pull out.

Might be a subject worth running through a spreadsheet and plotting change of AoA over time versus increase of airspeed over the same time.
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