The Metro SOPs (I never flew the J41) were stringent and a little complex when I started with them, but were soon whittled down to where they needed to be.
I have it on good authority that the Engine Failure after T/O on the J41 had TWENTY-SEVEN MEMORY ITEMS.
That is simply outrageous and the morons in CASA who approved it are as bad as the people who put it in the manuals.
...how about sending multi-crew pilots out in a C152 to regain night currency?
Both these companies were doing OK (not magically... but OK) before the foreign agents were inserted