Like I said about the CA, he fits the "middle aged career changer who went to Gulfstream" profile. Just jump and react and hope he did it right.

If you'll notice though, he didn't bump the power near what you should for a stall recovery.

As far as tail stall recovery that was passed around, it was mostly centered around getting the flaps up... little was spoken about power for the most part. We're talking about cultural things here and not official training, so things are going to have variance.

Now, how he reacted to the pusher: that was standard Pinnacle/Colgan training. Getting the pusher in the sim was a fail event if it dropped your altitude more than 100 feet or so, so whenever someone would trigger it they would override it to try to maintain altitude and thus not fail the maneuver. Brilliant, isn't it?