Smiling Monkey. Things move on I did my initial IR using an RBI & a loop. But that has no relevance to today's aircraft. The crew of this AirAsia we're dealing with modern kit & as we found out with AF 447 the aircraft doesn't necessarily stall in a conventional manor. If this AirAsia crew found the control laws went from normal to direct 1 second they would getting max roll rates of 15deg/sec to suddenly in the region of 50deg/sec & full back stick going from 2.5 g to goodness knows what. Personally they deserve the benifit of the doubt until the investigation is complete. In my experience of the BUS reverting to old techniques can lead you into very deep water. (No secondary effects of controls for instance) New pilots "should" be trained to asses & respond to modern/type aircraft.