Who is to say that having an FA in the cockpit will stop a mentally unstable pilot from doing something stupid?
Who's to say that the FA that you are required to allow into the flightdeck isn't the one that is the mentally unstable person about to do something stupid??
If this is to even slightly have any benefit FA's will need to be parfait or at very least be aware with pilots procedures, eg TCAS manoeuvres, stall recovery, engine issues, depress etc etc or there could be potential for interference that could be worse than what this hair brain scheme was thought out to try and avoid.
And who will pay for this additional training and to what competence level do they train the FA to? And do you train every FA? Will the FA's be required to have regular Phyc evals to perform this roll??
So then that would lead to it being Better implementing all 3 pilot crews? At least all will be qualified as pilots and competent with procedures. But again the extra cost just so you can go for a quick piss would be way to excessive.
Massive can of worms.
Maybe we just acknowledge it's happened, it's an extremely rare event, it can never be fully eliminated, we learn from it and move forward in a timely and constructive manner.
No more knee jerk reactions in this industry thanks!
