I don't mean to vilify the crew but the comments about 'heroes' and 'great CRM' were completely unjustified and I wouldn't want. less experienced pilots to hold this up as an example of 'how to do it'.
I agree with that for sure. Another point is that we don't know that the guy in the left is even flight crew. Technically SP with a loadie/winch op?
From my point of view using a 139 in these types of ops would be hard work for numerous reasons.
The bigger is better falls over when you still only have one helicopter that can only be in one place at one time.
You can fly them SP but it would be difficult to operate them SP. Crap visibility from the cockpit for a start which you really need good visibility if you are going to mix it low level with sneaky obstacles as we saw.
Hardly ideal.