Has there been any discussion or human factors research on why the AF447 and AirAsia pilots did not take action based on the indicated EADI pitch attitude?
It seems to me that the PF of AF 447 and the Colgan crash thought that to avoid a stall, one should pull up ???!!!!! What the hell had their TRIs and training managers been teaching them?
On Airbus sidesticks, there is a small oval panel at the top secured by two screws. It appears to have no function, except as a place to rest one's thumb.
It seems to me that this panel could be replaced by a vibrating element, like that found in mobile phone batteries - to give tactile feedback to a pilot that his plane is stalling. The logic to identify the stall already exists - to give the "stall stall" warning, so one only needs to use that to energise a vibrating element in the side stick to create a haptic attention getter - like that of a stick shaker.