Originally Posted by
Tinpusher007
Guys that I've talked to who have flown the dash-8 have speculated that the captain may have thought he was in a tail stall. Apparently the indications can be confused easily with a main wing stall and the proper technique to get out of it is opposite to a main wing stall i.e. pull back and add power instead of pushing forward. Im not offering this as fact...as I've not been trained on a tail stall or all the way to stick pusher in the sim (though I suspect we all will be now).
You don't get a shaker and a push in a tail stall. in matter of fact it happens at relatively high approach speeds when you change the flap configuration. I speak from experience I have had a tail stall in both the SAAB and the Jetstream 32.