Lack Of Flap Understanding
The issue of icing-tail stall recovery may have been in the Colgan Air Flight 3407 crew’s thinking, but regardless, nothing explains how a pilot would yank the nose up to more than 30 deg. To additionally retract the flaps once the nose is coming up shows a great lack of understanding. I agree with...
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