Sasless- Like a lot of people of our generation, often tends to write as he would speak in the crew room or bar. It lends an air of authenticity to his posts and I'm far from alone in thinking that pprune gains tremendous benefit from his 'rambling on a bit'
True, but bear in mind that SASless is no longer in the crewroom. He routinely fires out personal criticisms from his retirement yacht but doesn't like ricochets or return fire.
BTW, I'm not sure that two pilots in the present aircraft will be possible. Having operated the 355N in a casevac role (police aircraft, prior to air ambulance in our part of the world), it wasn't practical because when the casualty is on board his legs and feet need to go under the instrument panel, meaning that the front left seat had to be left out. We were obliged to leave one of our observers and his seat behind, sometimes in the hills if we diverted in from our normal job to pick up an urgent casualty case.
Also, the main issue under discussion seems to be loss of visual cues, trying to fly VFR, below safety altitude in IMC. Stabilise the aircraft (autopilot), make it fully IFR capable but leave it single pilot. Not sure how the old mindset of "let's always struggle VFR" could be cured, though.