Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
Two comments:
The crew should have been able to recover from a stall. Many have commented on the FO retracting flaps, unfortunately, that WAS what Colgan's FAA APPROVED training commanded. (stall recover training has since been changed)
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JSH
Are you sure about that? In our PNCL CRJ raising the flaps from 45 to 8/20 was part of the "profile", but ONLY after establishing positive control/positive airspeed trend (clean up procedure, not recovery). It said nowhere in the Colgan books anything about not raising them after positive airspeed trend (out of the stall)? Even so that's something that should be common knowledge, that once in a stall retracting the flaps is not going to do you any favors. Or is the Colgan manual just misread so that it appears that Flaps UP is a part of the actual recovery, rather than part of the clean-up procedure following the stall recovery?
cliff notes version....are we sure the FO didn't mistake the published Colgan CLEAN UP following the stall profile for the RECOVERY.