Sure, there has been no questioning of the autopilot, it performed as advertised. The only time I have had an A330 autopilot drop out was in severe turbulence, the drop out is a very rare occurrence, unlike in the A320 series. I have never had the autopilot do anything it was never designed to do, nor the flying controls. It is actually an impressive and impressively capable autopilot. I would assume that, unlike in this incident, during tanking there would be 2 pilots at the controls throughout, but of course it is dangerous to rely upon assumptions.
When I tanked from the Vulcan was that the autopilot flying it too?
And yes a former receiver from my 17 years occupying an ejection seat.