It also brought home to me that in the middle of the pitch black night in the middle of nowhere you are absolutely reliant on your instruments, and why did none of them notice the pitch-up attitude on the AH and do what any student air cadet glider pilot should have done instinctively, i.e. lower the nose?
Maybe PF was too occupied fighting the roll oscillation to notice what he was doing with the pitch?
Until you are sitting in the seat under
identical conditions, you do not know how well you would have handled the sensory overload. There are load shedding strategies for handling sensory overload, but they need to be trained and developed.
Has training improved that much in the intervening almost 4 years that everyone feels they could handle that scenario should it happen to them?