I’m in the left seat of Garmin’s Cessna Citation CJ2 level at 14,500 feet and cruising along over the pancake-flat Kansas prairie when company pilot Jessica Koss directs me to pull both throttles to idle and leave them there.
I comply and the autopilot dutifully holds the moderately loaded airplane’s altitude rock steady while airspeed diminishes, pitch attitude increases, and the elevator trim wheel spins. The pitch attitude is 10 degrees nose-up and airspeed has bled off to just 110 KIAS as the low-speed/high angle-of-attack warnings on the G600 retrofit panel flash and make aural “airspeed” and “landing gear” callouts.