Originally Posted by
Excel
You know, I considered the fact that they might have been more concerned with holding altitude, but I am not so sure I would buy that. Unfortunately we will never know what the intent was. But I do believe that any pilot with reasonable experience would not fight a pusher/shaker in a swept-wing aircraft, especially at 40,000 feet. Weather they where purposely fighting the pusher, or they had the wrong reactions to the stall is not really the concern. I think the point is, this isn’t the first time the NTSB has been exposed to an accident where a pilot overpowered a stick pusher, whether it was on purpose or not, I am just wondering if the NTSB and FAA missed an opportunity to examine the system and culture of stall training in general.
they would try to fight it if they were concerned with saving their careers, as opposed to their lives, as that CA was. He didn't want to do a carpet dance in front of the CP/FAA......do we REALLY need to train that in a CRJ, at FL410, with engines already at 98% N1 and thin air, not able to climb, losing airspeed, behind the power curve, powering out by firewalling the thrust levers and getting a whopping 1-2% N1 without decreasing AOA isn't really going to do anything?? I always thought that came down to lack of common sense and basic aerodynamics more than a lack of "training"