Originally Posted by
joema
The pitch control system was definitely working for him. Had it not resisted the pilot, he'd have probably have stalled it at a higher altitude out over the water.
Think about it, hadn't the system had this feature to gradually resist pull on the yoke as the speed neares stall limit, then the pilot most likely would have encountered the stick shaker at this earlier and higher altitude. The plane still wouldnt have stalled obviously, but it would be clear to the pilot at an earlier time that he was on the stall limit, maybe he would understand it was from lack of speed and actually manually increase thrust.
As this "yoke resists pull" feature obviously comes gradually it might be suitable to delay a less observant pilot in intuitively understand the speed is way low.