Re: The human pilots just do the easy bits...
You can say exactly the same for a piston engine
You can say what you like. Doesn't make it true...
flood the cylinders and it stalls, too little fuel and it stalls
But if you run the fuel within the nominal fule settings, that will not happen at any stage of the flight. You can go to min[1] or max at any time - as long as you don't over-rev to the point where it simply falls apart, the engine will keep turning.
The same cannot be said for a jet engine; fuel control is critical.
That doesn't mean it needs a computer to control all that.
It needs some form of computation. Whether that computer be a human flight engineer, a mechanical computer, or an electronic one matters not. You still need one.
Vic.
[1] I'm ignoring ICO for reasons I hope are rather obvious...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
