Originally Posted by
Radix
Now this is interesting. The consensus in this thread so far is that pilots have become too dependent on automation.
If pilots have become too dependent on automation, the solution is to add more automation? All that does is exacerbate the problem. It's a vicious circle.
Perhaps all that is needed is not so much an automated stall recovery so much as automatics sensing approach to stall and stall
not making things worse. For example as the aircraft approaches stall the THS could stop trimming nose up, if the pilot wants more nose up then he can manually dial it in. Perhaps _at_ the stall, and you can get there in Normal law if you zoom climb into it at high cruising levels, the THS could motor to neutral; again the pilot could stop it manually if necessary. Had the THS motored to neutral in the AFR447 case the aircraft would probably have pitched nose down and might have been recovered.