Physicus, don't throw insults if you're not going to get is all right - adding power at high altitude is always going to be a gradual affair as the engines respond slowly up there. They also have relatively little thrust in the cruise due to the low air density, so aggressively firewalling the thrust levers from a high alt stall is not going to be the source of control issues and will be easily overcome by elevator pressure, especially if you remember to trim. Low speed and low altitude and yes, it is a major issue.
Aluminium shuffler, while I agree with you regarding thrust at high altitude, how can the following post by
silverstrata be explained?
Likewise the high altitude stalling was interesting too. With the engines at full chat (as commanded by the a/t) it was almost impossible to recover from the stall. And at cruise power, full forward control deflection was required. It was useful to learn that the standard light aircraft nod into a recoverable descent just did not happen, and the aircraft would just pancake down almost tail first - just as AF447 and this one did.
Is it a case of lack of sim fidelity or is elevator effectiveness reduced at high altitude by approximately the same amount as the available thrust is reduced?