"Don Johnstone" wrote in
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the ground in a stalled condition. There were 3 qualified
ATPL pilots in the cockpit, two of them qualified as
captain on type. None of them it would appear recognised
that the airplane was stalled.
What chance have we mere mortals got if the gods get
it wrong?
No need to put ATPL's on a pedestal. At one of our club meetings, we had a
speaker whose business is teaching unusual attitude recovery to ATPLs. To
get his presentation going he gave us a number of scenarios and asked how
we'd respond. After giving us half a dozen of these and having the group
respond in unison with the right answer to each of them, he said "you know
more about this subject than any group of airline pilots I've ever trained".

Most of us glider pilots have a gut reaction in bad situations to unload the
wings first. Many professional pilots apparently don't.

That said, I don't mean to congratulate us all into any reduction in stall
avoidance and recovery training.