Well, to be fair, flying a heavy is vastly different from a light plane. You don't have the seat-of-the-pants feel, centre-of-gravity varies greatly during the

Well, to be fair, flying a heavy is vastly different from a light plane. You don't have the seat-of-the-pants feel, centre-of-gravity varies greatly during the flight with fuel burn-off, at cruise you are flying only a few knots over the stall speed, and so on. There were even situations where pushing forward was the wrong thing to do (although no longer, thank goodness). The 727 could enter a situation where the elevator itself was stalled from the main wing stall. Modern heavies are about systems management and cockpit procedures. As someone below points out, if one system is telling you to pull up from overspeed, and another is telling you to push forward from stall, which do you believe? And, more importantly, how quickly can you trouble-shoot to find the correct action?