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Originally Posted by thestaton  Just a note, I just had something very similar to this happen. We where leaving Rota, Spain coming back to Dover, DE. After the pilots climbed to cruise, they realized that autopilot would not engage. Engineers ran there checks, and did everything they could. We had 3 pilots and I kid you not they beasted the whole 10 hour flight back to Dover. |
That's why in our aircraft we were limited to a 12 hour duty day if any axis of the autopilot was inop. And man, that is a LONG 12 hours when you have to do it....