Most current trainers waffle in a nose up attitude at the stall and are practically impossible to stall.
Point of order. Those aircraft are ALREADY stalled.
in large passenger jets even 35,000 ft may not be enough recovery altitude of course.......
I think Mimpe is referring to Air France 447, the Airbus 330 that entered the stall near FL400 over the south Atlantic ocean. The aircraft remained stalled all the way down and brought the deaths of all 228 persons on board.
The FDR revealed that there were two "stall recovery-like" actions on the controls but they were insufficient to break the stall.
The final report is not out yet but the ICAO has already stated that it intends recommending to member countries that they review how stall recovery is taught.
It appears that the recovery technique being used by the crew was based around achieving the minimum height loss.
I believe that, in Australia, minimum height loss is one of the requirements of a stall recovery.