white knight you are right
boys and girls...situational awareness...flying along, airspeed normal, altitude constant, power setting normal, pitch normal for speed at cruise.
I was once in a plane with a moron captain...he didn't have his pitot heat on (i did) and we entered cloud....his airspeed fell off to zero, he started panicing like a little girl.
I said calm down, we are trimmed for level cruise flight with cruise power and no indication of turbulence, I then reached over and turned on his pitot heat.
a few seconds later, everything was fine
and if and i mean IF we had NO accurate airspeed indications I sure wouldn't PULL BACK ON THE STICK
and maybe the LHS pilot should have pressed the I've got it button and pushed forward.
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away we assumed one thing would be wrong and looked for other ways to KNOW what was going on.