Originally Posted by Swedish Blender

How much have you trained with a stick pusher? You say doing hundreds of stalls when the nose drops and the horn goes off would give you the muscle memory. It would not be the same.

Usually in light aircraft, the yoke is pretty far back when you stall. Not the case of a stick pusher. I don't know the particulars of the Dash 8, but a pusher works to prevent a stall so there may not have been a stall warning at that point.

Speaking from experience doing training in the sim, the first time you get a pusher and the nose points at the ground, your first instinct is to pull back. I did it, everyone I saw did it the first time. If you've never trained on it or experienced it, you have no basis to qualify your remarks.

Additionally, stall recovery training at the time was to power out of stalls and not reduce AOA much and lose altitude. Granted he didn't push power up all the way during the recovery, but I would say a better training program would've helped more than doing stalls in GA planes.