Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Let's not forget the props being brought up to high RPM, but both pilots didn't bother to check for the airspeed drop off that is always associated with that action.
Then, pulling back in the stall... which is what Pinnacle and Colgan taught at the time. "Don't lose altitude!" 4 years earlier the Pinnacle 3701 accident the pilots did the same thing at 41,000 feet... the shakers fired and the captain (who also originated from Gulfstream just like the Colgan captain) hauled back on the stick.
Heck I do remember doing approach to stall stuff in the RJ and you'd do the clean, dirty and in a turn and have to slow to the shaker and recover to 180 or 200 kts +/- 5 and altitude +/- 100' and then do it again.
Now I got a chance to do it in the aircraft during training (not enough sim time) so in the middle of the night over Waco at 14000 I slowed it down to the shaker and unlike the sim the pusher fired off pretty easily. And fired off is the best way to describe that thing. Neat to see.