Quote:Phoenix
40° AOA is quite extreme and not sustainable, but with THS at 25°-30° AOA, reduced thrust, the elevator at max ND would give a ND movement.
But remember, under FBW C* implementation like AB in normal and alternate law the SS does not control the elevators directly. A SS neutral does not command an elevator at neutral position, it commands a loadfactor of 1g and the elevators and THS will be at whatever it takes to maintain or achieve this 1g. In a stalled condition like you describe with the THS all the way nose up the elevators would be nose up too.
The SS commands a loadfactor change, which the Flight computers will transfer into an elevator command with gains designed for comfort and in order not to exceed the loadfactor limitations. So it will take a long time SS full nose down to get those elevators moving beyond the neutral position into nose down, and only then would the trim start to follow and start to trim nose down. There is no time to wait for that. Use the procedure which is established, and that one includes the use of manual trim.