forget the glamour
Both helicopters had experienced camaremen in the back capable of reporting,
but role of cameraman is not a glamorous a job as percieved by viewers, as a pilot.
This an is underlying fact to consider if we are to lighten newspilot workload.
It is wise practice to use all the eyes in the cockpit to find local traffic, but it is a pilots job to maintain visual especially at such close proximity.
Reading reports of the accident and listening to the live audio from pilots one wonders if needing to give live commentry compromised radio comunication between aircraft.
It is one thing to expect a pilot, with other aircraft in close proxmity, to track a vehicle making random turns, but add in the tasks of needing to watch the in cockpit monitor as well as look to the ground to see what is happeng out of the field of view of the camaremen leaves less time to look for other aircraft. Usually one pilot or another takes avoiding action, unfortunately in this case given the availability of video evidence both sets of eyes could have been drawn down to a dramatic moment in the chase below, on which it was also their job to give intelligent commentry.
Creaser