Wiggy
If the EASA recommendation is causing so much grief where you work then is it worth trying to get your management in your own company to read again what EASA actually wrote, perform their own risk assessment and then implement " other equivalent mitigating measures"....or would that cost them too much?
It wouldn't cost too much when the decision is made. However, should there be another incident where a second person in the cockpit might have prevented it and the decision was not to always have a second person in the cockpit. Imagine the legal arguments being made against the airline. Imagine the bad
PR. Imagine the costs of fighting all that --- so why should the person in the airline making the decision go for the one that the aircrew seem to support and take the risk for her/his career? Easier and less of a career risk to follow EASA recommendations.
EASA of course made it a recommendation only so that any airlines that complain of the costs and problems are told with a smile "
but it is only a recommendation...". Knowing that safety recommendations are never turned down by the risk averse company men in the aircraft operating companies.