Originally Posted by glum
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.
Clearly you are not an A330 type rated licensed avionics engineer then?
Don't let facts stop you posting though, there are plenty of other posts on this thread with about as much genuine factual information as yours!