the lesson I get from that is that when workload and stress are at a peak, FD bars are what a pilot will follow
I think it depends on how you were trained. If you've had it firmly nailed into you from early training to
fly the airplane, and that the secret to doing so is
always pitch + power = performance, you will be looking "through the bars" for the magic combination that works for your aircraft. On mine during GA I expect to see a little less than 15˚ ANU and thrust 1.45/1.55 depending on engine type (or even simpler, T/Ls wherever they end up with my right arm straight). If the FD bars are wildly off, you bloody well ignore them...
There are only about six or seven attitude and thrust combinations you need to memorise in order to save your ∫utt in pretty much any situation, certainly less than ten, and any pilot taking coin and calling himself a professional owes it to himself and others to learn them.
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