Well done ant. Said it like it is. It does serve a purpose. Proper operation of the system depends on proper piloting. You cannot have such a system that will work for ANY poor pilot. It's amazing there are people who cannot understand the system, yet feel they are knowledgeable enough to castigate the designer!
Nicholas49- way out. Nonsense. Nobody has suggested it, you have absolutely no evidence for mad airspeed theories!
JG1, thank you, take a ticket and stand in the corner- you are the 47th. person to post that and the 547th not to have read the thread history!
We really have reached the limit of what can be discussed based on what evidence has been released. It's a zoo, with every shade of opinion and experience (and inexperience) posting the same queries and remarks, and EVERYBODY knows how to design an autoflight system better than Boeing! I'm impressed (not).