Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
The problem is that all airlines train "approach to stalls" and not stall and spin recovery. When you recover from an approach to stall you add power and maintain pitch or in some aircraft increase pitch. After doing this over and over again in the sim, I can see why one would pull up rather than nose over in an actual stall. If you pulled back 50 times in the sim when you got the shaker, you'll pull back when you get the shaker in the airplane.
Next time you have a PC ask the instructor to let you recover from an actual stall at 1500 feet and then another one at FL370. If you have never done it, you will shortly find out that you don't want to see it for the first time after a long day in the ice going into BUF.
I'm not saying you're right or wrong and this isn't directed at you personally.
The difference is, we are supposed to be profesional airline pilots. If you can't read your flight manuals and learn the differences between approach to and post stall recovery and/or ask for the training when you have 5 minutes in your recurrent training, then you probably aren't a professional airline pilot.
At this point in our careers, we are armed with enough tools to figure out what our strong and low points are. And we should be using that information to make oursevles better, safer pilots. This isn't the type of job where you should be the epitome of "just meets standards". Yes, the standard is good enough, but if you aren't keeping yourself in the books and trying to learn bigger and better things, then this probably isn't the career for you.