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One or our major interests is to promote excellence in crew coordination training. We have gathered together a large amount of material including SOPs, articles, videos and an elaborate simulator training syllabus that we use to prepare new commercial pilots to work in a crew environment. SOP stands for Standard Operating Procedures. In order for a crew to work together effectively they must follow SOPs; this is especially true when crew members come together infrequently. At a large airline you may find yourself flying with a pilot you have never met before. SOPs clarify your duties ensuring that everything that needs to get done is done with no confusion and no wasted effort. A crew is a team. The Captain is the leader, but all members of the crew are vital and important. In the good old / bad old days many Captains lacked respect for their First and Second officers (FO and SO.) Some cultures still have a strong tendency to defer all decision making to the Captain. But the most effective crew operates with all pilots making decisions and expressing recommendations and concerns. Ultimately the Captain must choose what action to take but the FO should always offer suggestions and a good Captain will accept them when they are valid. Start by reading our SOPs Here is our entire simulator syllabus. All lessons designated as ALSIM are crew lessons. Each students flies the lesson twice, once as Captain and once as First Officer: First Year Syllabus, Second Year Syllabus All ALSIM training material is organized on the Alsim Page Here is an article about a poorly handled Citation Jet takeoff on a dark night a few years ago.
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