on our ARJ fleet, we are required to a autoland a day, and this is normally done during the first landing of the day. It has nothing to do with the crew (as a matter of fact we would muuuch prefer to manual land
), but is a test for aircraft's capability. We used to have some failure on the system right when you were required to use it. We don't even mention it to ATC.
For us, autoland, even ones in CAT III, are a piece of cake (somebody surely will say the opposite here). We get checked for CATIII every six months in the simulator. We then fly approaches in bad vis, and the TRI/E will give you different failures before/after the marker. You are then required to analyze those failures and either go-around, proceed with the app or take a lower CAT minima.
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... cut my wings and I'll die ...