Originally Posted by
NEDude
On a different note, how about referring to United Airlines presentation at the North American Airbus Operators Conference in 2011 (might have been 2012) where they shared the results of putting some of their pilots into an Air France scenario in the A320 simulator? Care to take a guess at what percentage of participants, all FAA ATPs, did exactly what the Air France FO did?
Northwest had it happen in an A-330 for real in Asia not long before AF did their thing. NWA guys set a pitch and held to it and flew out of it a couple minutes later.
That's what pilots do.
People with 90% classroom time and relief pilot hours may react differently.