Without wishing to get too pedantic or serious, I would argue the S61 has an “autostab" rather than an autopilot, since it won’t actually ‘fly’ anything for you. Much more complicated in something like the 365 which could pretty much fly the whole trip for you from the hover....now that is an autopilot.
Of late there seems to have been much more emphasis on ensuring candidates in an IR can functionally use the Autopilot (programming the hold, for instance) and the trend from the CAA tends to be leaning towards using your aircraft’s kit to it’s maximum capacity...... as long as you can still do the full manual ILS (no Flight Director) which is, of course, my starting point!
