Problem is, if something goes wrong, as a pilot you need to be able to, firstly, keep focussed on flying the aircraft, and then note the symptoms, make sense of the symptoms, arrive at a likely diagnosis and proceed with an initial course of action. All that before you look at any manual. No room in any of that for consultation with anybody who is not sitting immediately to your left or right. You just can't be diluting that fundamental aspect of piloting.
Something is fundamentally wrong in the North Sea. Why do accidents happen in the NS at the rate they do but, by way of comparison, in 50 years of operational O&G flying in Bass Strait Australia - which has its fair share of bad weather and all those other things - not a single accident in all that time. Just saying.