Plectron, how right you are!
An ex-UK mil colleague who flies the 757 as an F/O told me that, shortly after the AF447 event, they attempted a similar exercise in the simulator. Despite the brief, the captain was unable to recognise and recover from the stall....until my colleague gave him a less-than-fluffy wake-up call.
He reckons that at least 50% of the non ex-mil pilots on their fleet are equally as poor.
The AF447 event was probably just the tip of a frightening iceberg, involving selection, training and SOPs. AF have had some spectacularly bad accidents in recent years (Concorde, A330, A340) - is there a clue here?
When you read that QRH and FCOM changes such as 'check that any fuel imbalance is not caused by a fuel leak before opening the cross-feed valve' have been made necessary after idiotic crew performance, you have to wonder at the level of corporate knowledge on some flight decks these days.