Panic Pull
Why does sidesticks keep getting brought up in the debate about AF-447?
Panic Pull is a syndrome that affects all types of flight control interfaces. I'm just a small time private pilot and it was drummed into us during training to trust the aircraft and don't fall back on your instincts.
I have an idea - what about a stall warning system that gets progressively louder & louder the longer pilots fail to heed it? It might just be enough to get a pilot to "snap out of it" when they've gone into instinctive mode and push the nose down when in a stall.
Also, in Colgan 3407 the stick shaking caused the pilot flying to instinctively pull up and stall. So in some situations a yoke may help the other pilot identify a stall there are other situations where it may actually cause a reflex panic pull. Both systems are completely safe and are equally as prone to "panic pull" type stall situations as we've seen on both types in the past.