Unusual Attitudes..
The phrase Unusual Attitudes seems appropriate here in more than one sense...
Quite frankly I'm amazed on learning that recovery from UA is not practiced by many training depts/organizations.
A pilots reaction to seeing an extreme high/low pitch att. coupled with low or excessive airspeed and extreme bank angle needs to be correct and unhesitating. Whether it's a Jet Transport or a chipmunk is of no importance whatsoever.
A 737 was lost in Africa a few years ago because it's believed that the crew 'thought' that they had engaged the A/P and flew close to a major storm cell on departure. The a/c was thrown into an extreme bank angle with consequent pitch down attitude and the captain misreading the instruments exacerbated the problem actually increasing the bank angle.
Any jet transport in the thin air of high altitude and flying in close proximity to large CBs can be at risk of an upset... especially in the tropics.
Only two months ago one of our senior 1st Officers blew an upgrade c/ride for simply failing to react correctly to an upset... just because you did it correctly during your ab-initio training years ago doesn't mean you'll do it correctly tomorrow.. unless you've had recurrent training.
Seems to me that there are more than a few people out there who are becoming victims of the automatic age, thinking that just pressing the buttons will ensure a safe arrival.