Originally Posted by Panic Stations

If you are referring to the chap on Sky News then he wasn't in a 777 simulator, he was in a 737 simulator and they are located at every 'corner shop' flying school to anyone who's willing to pay.



Physics is indeed physics, but a Cessna is not a 747 and approach pitch attitudes are very different between the two. Place the nose below the horizon on a big jet and you will rapidly see the speed run away from you on a big jet even without thrust. If they had momentarily put the nose below the horizon (and that is a very unnatural feeling in a jet that size) they may well have had to pitch up to contain the speed excursion. However that is nothing more than speculation and I'm sure the investigation will reveal the true pitch attitudes involved as opposed to what we all thought we saw.



From two miles out I can clearly see all of those from my 747 pulling 5 degrees of pitch and I doubt the crash aircraft got much more than that or they'd have stalled much earlier.