Originally Posted by
Jimmy Hoffa
wait till you have an actual stick pusher in flight and try to tell me your first instinct was not to pull back. regardless of training for it, its happens so quick and is so startling/scary that i bet 95% of you will pull back as well.
the entire industry including there peers unfortunately threw these 2 under the bus.
The captain pulling back induced the pusher, not the other way around.
When getting an unexpect shaker in flight, the IMMEDIATE reaction from any pilot should be a huge, flashing, neon sign going off in their head that reads "AIRSPEED!!!" followed immediately by the two things all pilots should have as a muscle memory to give them airspeed - pitching down and adding power.
This captain didn't have the ability to keep himself out of a situation he didn't have the skill to get himself out of.