big red button
A question from a SLF who most lurks and learns a lot here.
At any point after the initial upset and once the initial period of pitot-iced UAS ended, did the systems on board AF447 have sufficient information about the aircraft's attitude/altitude/speed(s) to ascertain and deliver the appropriate recovery inputs? (i.e. would the kind of Hail Mary recovery systems on Cirrus and some other aircraft have worked if the big red button was pushed?)
If so, then could it be that the fundamental issue is not how much "Nanny" control is best but training pilots to know when they are out of their depth or have lost awareness. It certainly seems that all three pilots in AF447 understood that they didn't understand what was going on and what to do.