Originally Posted by
gazumped
I would have a guess that once "deep stalled" a A330 would require in excess of 15,000 to recover, and only then if the correct control Imputs were done.
Thoughts anyone?
If you have a look through the Tech Log threads, you'll see that we did some experiments in an A320 sim (didn't have access to that of an A330/340). So with that caveat, plus the fact that the sim works on extrapolated flight test data in the stall regime and a non-pilot (i.e. me) was at the controls for some scenarios - we had the aircraft recovered from a stall at FL380 within about 18,000ft using just the sidestick to recover, and about 12,000ft using the trim wheels to centre the THS plus sidestick to initiate nose-down/descent.