..And its not a strawman argument to say that this does not prove that its necessary with two dedicated pilots?
An aircraft of any kind can crash no matter how experienced the crew is, or how many they are, so you can easily claim that an S-92 operating to/from SVG everyday might just as well be piloted by one instead of two. Its no safer with two guys in that cockpit?
You know thats balloney..
The whole point with having two dedicated pilots in the EMS ops, is to ease the workload of PF. To claim that this is not necessary is quite an astonishing argument. Are you basically saying that their operations arent that dangerous?
And yes, a TCM do alot of help to the pilot, but it becomes very limited.
However unlikely it may be, what if an EMS unit pics up a badly injured person, and the pilot gets incapacitated in IMC. Will the TCM be capable of handling that situation too?