This paper discusses the challenges of controlling an unstable system with a saturating actuator, using aircraft control as an example. It presents a simple prototype system to model the key features. The paper proposes a hybrid control strategy that prioritizes stabilizing the system when states are within a stabilizable region, while allowing for manual control as long as safety is maintained. The strategy uses cascaded saturation blocks and controllers to stabilize the system and constrain it to the stabilizable region, even under manual control inputs.