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Old 20th Nov 2012, 19:21
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glum
 
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The maintenance burden is huge. Every time any part of the autopilot / land system fails that requires a rectification / box-swap the groundcrew have to carry out a full autopilot functional check with full autoland. That's about 8 hours work...

This of course includes the ILS and RADALT systems.

Not to mention keeping a log of all the boxes status after every flight, so that any spurious fault trends can be monitorerd.

I seriously doubt they have the manpower for that...
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