Originally Posted by DeSitter
But they should be servants, not directors - the airplane should react as an airplane, and at any moment it should be possible to pull the plug on the flight director and fly the airplane according to aerodynamics and piloting experience, rather than by understanding various "laws" and "modes" of a particular computer system.
Isn't that exactly what the systems do when A/P, A/THR and "Normal Law" protections step back and say "your airplane"?