Originally Posted by puravida
My point was that to say the aircraft was 'held' in the stall by the nose-up inputs (and resulting THS position) is false. If they would have reduced thrust the entire decent, we would have seen the nose going up and down continuously as airspeed rose and fell. With reduced thrust, the pitch angle never got over 0.
- while I fully agree that, as with the PGF A320, power reduction would have aided recovery, I think you are confusing pitch attitude with AoA? - it is AoA that stalls a wing, not pitch. Pitch attitude is not in reality relevant to 447 from 38000' down. Even when the pitch attitude fell below zero the wing, I think you will find, was still fully stalled and being
kept stalled. It is extremely straightforward to stall an aeroplane
at a very low power setting if
enough nose-up force is applied - otherwise airtest stalls could never be done.