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Yeah, I didn't mean it was auto landing, rather that every control in an airbus goes though the computer, which does a load of extra stuff in order to simplify input.
You can't take an airbus out of it's envelope (bank angles etc) like you can with Boeings, which have more direct control. I.e; a 747 would at least let you try to do a barrel roll, whereas an A330 will just stop at 45 degrees or something, from what I understand.
Well_is_it-
Don't forget that modern Boeing models (777 and 787) are fully fly by wire as well - although Boeing and Airbus might have different ideas about how far they'll allow the pilots push the envelope.
As you said though, the flight control computers stop the pilots doing some stuff towards the edge of the envelope, but they don't move the elevator, ailerons or rudder by themselves if the aircraft is being flown normally.
peter_h
Says here was the pilots landed the plane.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/a-1171745.html