Re:I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic
by GuB-42 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:01AM
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In fact, I think most pilots would have done that.
Pilots are trained to recover from stalls over and over, until it becomes second nature. And the way to do it is to follow into the dive until you regain control authority and then pull back slowly. This is not a regular stall but the idea is the same: pulling doesn't work? try pushing.
Of course I wasn't in the cockpit, and I would probably be panicking if I was, but from my armchair, it looks like the kind of reaction a properly trained pilot would naturally have.
Pilots are trained to recover from stalls over and over, until it becomes second nature. And the way to do it is to follow into the dive until you regain control authority and then pull back slowly. This is not a regular stall but the idea is the same: pulling doesn't work? try pushing.
Of course I wasn't in the cockpit, and I would probably be panicking if I was, but from my armchair, it looks like the kind of reaction a properly trained pilot would naturally have.