You’re right Dan, it is part of PPL training and its even part of a regular check flight aswell. Im sure that airline pilots also do stall training though – I recall the Cathay Pacific B744 DVD by ITVV where they demonstrated a stall in the simulator where they showed how the stick shaker can alert the pilot to the stall.
I agree with you that no visual aids is what would of been the biggest problem regarding their stall recovery.
Assuming their theory is right about the pitot freezing up and simulataneous system failures I can imagine the last few minutes were filled with a mass amount of confusion and i’d take a guess they probably would wonder if any instruments were giving reliable readings or not, and with no visual references it may of been relatively easy to fall into a stall, it probably would of been difficult to verify by looking out due to it being dark and that would of made any sort of recovery practically impossible.
Of course its all still guess work.. lets hope they do find the black box and CVR.
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