Re the AA upset training video - I have watched that video (and the other four associated with it) some 30-40 times and there is NOTHING in it which advocates rudder reversals. There IS an extremely well presented case for the appropriate use of CO-ORDINATED rudder and one specific caveat regarding the MD11 (hugely over powerful). It was specified as an appropriate response for upset recovery under particular conditions. The emphasis was necessary because of the repeated fatal results of the 737 crossover problem. That problem was discussed and demonstrated in a particularly accessible way and the illustrations left no doubts about the problem or the importance of rudder when below crossover speed.
In addition to the apparent misunderstanding of the AA training video contents there would appear to be a continuing (deliberate?) misunderstanding of the causes of the various Airbus accidents - particularly Habsheim. If you try to carry out a manoeuuvre for which you have not been trained in circumstances where the most basic prudence would suggest it was stupid to do so, the aircraft protection systems, which keep you and most of those on board alive rather than killing everybody in a 'stall and burn', should be praised rather than villified.
