Multi-Crew Cabina Compartida

From the beginning of his aeronautical career, at the start of the first hour of flight instruction, the pilot encounters the concept of a shared cockpit, but in this case with an instructor in charge of the class. Without knowing it, he is taking the first steps in his shared cockpit training, a concept that will accompany him in the most professional stage of his career, the airline.

In much of a pilot's career, this shared cockpit concept does not apply, as the pilot flies alone with friends or with companions who are not involved in his flying activity. After receiving his private pilot's aeroplane licence, the new pilot starts flying to add up his flight hours of experience, and during this course, the shared cockpit concept is not an item to be complied with, although it should be.

In this manual we will give a definitive solution to this shortcoming of the aeronautical instruction system, and we will try to bring all the shared cockpit concepts to pilots of all levels, from the initial pilot who is about to make his first solo flight, to the professional pilot who is entering to fly in an airline.

Learning to fly an aircraft in a shared cockpit does not refer to the technical flying skills that a pilot may have when operating his aircraft, but rather to the human resource inside the cockpit, and the management of this resource in terms of flight safety. One of the pillars of this new concept that we will learn will be to understand that any procedure can be shared between two pilots, and in function of this, not only to achieve the effectiveness of the procedure, but also to maximise the resources of the flight.

After learning this concept, and applying it in real life throughout your flights, you will see that flying a shared cockpit will not only make the flight more enjoyable, but also more efficient.

This will be the aim of our book, to teach you all the concepts of shared cockpit, to become a more efficient pilot than you were before reading this book.