vilas,
Thanks for your summary and views. Not able to source for the Flight Safety Conference document yet. Any chance you can share it?
A good suggestion to see how the "aircraft" works by looking at the sim. As you had mentioned the autoland pilot will centre the heading and apply the aileron to level the wing for crosswind landing.
A question from this. Some has mentioned that they expect the aircraft to maintain wings level while they centre the nose as they are not demanding any change in the roll rate and expect the aircraft to keep 0 roll rate by itself (meaning the computers will order the necessary aileron output).
We know the aircraft outputs aileron for wings level but would this be done by the computer or is it expected from the pilot/autopilot? In other words, while manual land, when the pilot centre the heading would he need to level the wing or would the computer do it? (This is with reference to crosswind value which does not require a partial side slip at touchdown). Could you please verify for us with your ideal controlled simulator environment?
Thanks very much.