Is full autorotation training to the ground still really necessary or is an autorotation with a powerrecovery at the end nowadays sufficient. It really depends on who you talk to.
We don't spend hours and hours flying with the standby Compass and stopwatch anymore either. You get it shown once or twice, do it yourself once or twice and that's it.
In the last say… 30 years how many western, twin engine, military helicopters have been comming down from the sky which required an autorotation to bring the Aircraft safely on the ground and if so.. how many managed to do this without actually damaging the Aircraft?
Maybe time is more well spend teaching other basic Aircraft handling (unusual attitudes for example) AND proper management (AVIATE FIRST) of the cockpits full with Goodies like AFCS, SBAS Navigation, Synthetic Vision, EVS, HTAWS, FMS etc. etc.