Originally Posted by john_tullamarine
However, in the absence of anything else going the pilot's way in extremis ... configuration, attitude and thrust is a good place to start when nothing much makes sense - unload the fear and then there is a chance for rational thought to occur. It follows that such data MUST be a memory item .. there is no time to pull out the QRH when the aircraft is at risk of toppling.
In my insularview, training and more training in the basics is the best way to cause a quasi-automatic but reasonable response to fright to occur.
That this may not have happy results in some cases is part of the cost of doing business .. we are concerned with maximising the overall probability of a successful outcome.
Sioux City was an exemplar for how to approach a lost cause, I suggest. A lot of the folks were killed but the miracle that any survived remains ..
Whether the beancounters acknowledge it or not .. when all the aces have disappeared, only the flightcrew remains to sort it out.
Your description of the heart of the philosophy of french PROFESSIONAL pilots "education" is exactly this one. Doing the student able to resist to the many pressures he will be the focus in his profession, corruption, fatigue, fear, surprise.
@DozyWanabee,
Where is the 80% figure coming from? In any case when you are seeing the speed decreasing instinctive action is to PUSH not to PULL and immediatly after come back to the HSI if speed continues to decrease, to avoid overspeed. If now a roll PIO is starting in alt2B sub-law instinctive action is away, and specialy with an autotrimmed plane you don't grip the stick, more the joy-stick! as if you were on a roller-coaster