Those who doubt the need for MCC training or who have flown 'two-pilot' and consider that a suitable qualification to teach MCC I would suggest that they don't know what they don't know - somebody famous said that I seem to remember! Anyway, I dusted off my logbook and checked and sure enough 17 years ago when I joined KLM-ERA there was the entry that proved I had done 20 hours simulator training on the S61 most of which was indoctrination in their 'Crew Concept' - which was a formalised MCC system with written SOPs backed up by training. At the time I was S61 current, an ex-S61 TRE and Authorised Examiner - in other words 20 hours wasn't to get me up to speed, it was to show me, and test me on the correct procedures as per the SOP.
Subsequently, and with the same company, I did a 32 hour S76 type transition despite being S76 rated, again, most of that was indoctrination on how the SOPs were to be used. Everyone went through the same routine when they joined.
In the intervening years others have realised that two crew operations require written SOPs and that these can only be applied via a suitable (simulator) training session. Now, many years later it seems it has become an issue with the regulators.
Search - Transport Canada
http://www.icao.int/icao/en/jr/2007/6203_en.pdf
I would venture to suggest that anyone who has himself not been formally indoctrinated into the use of a set of MCC SOPs is in a difficult position when it comes to teaching them. It's a bit like a blind man trying to teach the correct use of colours. He can read about colours in the special blind-man's book and then pass that information on, but without personal experience of colours he will always struggle to really understand them and the nuances of life in a coloured world.
G.
