Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Definitely disagree about the cost of changing the SOP, does not take much to write your own copy of PRO-SUP in MS Word.
That works only if you use solely paper documentation. As soon as you use the airbus sets of applications for an EFB it will be very costly indeed. In a previous airline i was, on the edge, involved in that issue and the cost to keep company SOPs in the documentation was in the millions a year for a fairly small airline with around 150 aircraft. And it was the only driver to switch to airbus OEM SOPs from our own ones that had been developed and refined together with airbus since they put the A320 in operation.
Again, they worked for us, but wouldn’t have worked for my current outfit where the average new captain has 3000 hours instead of 12.000, and where spend just a few weeks on training on a new FO instead of roughly half a year.