Stall recovery and AoA one mo' time
Glad to see we're back to recovery possibilities and maybe even probabilities.
Liked 'bird's and Retired's responses, a lot.
Unlike that little jet I flew long ago, the Airbus does not appear to have that "bucket" in the pitch moment characteristics. In other words, no "deep stall" and some semblance of pitch control by the humans besides those inputs otto is cranking in. Otherwise, why would the pilot even need to hold back stick? And it also appears that a few nose down( or even a few less nose up) inputs resulted in actual pitch changes, no?
The flaky AoA indications available and the system's disregard of AoA for a short time didn't help, but seems the speed indications came back fairly soon.
So I throw my hat in with 'bird and Retired and others postulating that a moderate nose down command and increase in thrust made recovery possible, and not requiring 20,000 friggin' feet. In other words, it was possible to fly out of the stall.
But ya gotta realize you are stalled! And seems some warnings were being blared on and off for the whole time. Apparently, the clue light never came on.
With the crappy AoA indications, all ya got is altitude and IAS/EAS/CAS ( pick one) to show you are making progress. No big deal, as once nose down 5 or even 10 degrees, the speed indications now available would show a slow but steady increase. And as O.G. points out, drag decreases immensely when lowering AoA from extreme values. I would imagine seeing a few knots increase every few seconds.
If I don't see some drastic changes in training and warnings to the crews about stalls and stall recoveries, I shall be greatly disappointed.