Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Or maybe the pilots should be doing that.
Indeed - and it's the only way the SS will give that order is if the pilot commands it. I'd hoped that'd be obvious!
PS. Gums will know all about this, but I've always tended to wince a little at the "HAL" analogy. HAL was a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (and a fictional one at that), whereas the computers used in the FBW Airbii are roughly as "intelligent" as the controller chips in your washing machine.