Originally Posted by
roulishollandais
@ Dozy
To be master or slave concerns precisely who decides when reaching the limit and the protection at the limit and if you can override it.
Those limits weren't plucked out of the air though, they were defined by the test pilots (a group of the best and most experienced in Europe) who went up in the prototype A320 and found them. So the "master" of the protections is still a pilot - just not the pilot in the seat at the time.