@SimBrief Hello Derek I hope you have been well! I just came up with an idea that I think would be cool to add to the Simbrief System and wanted to know what your thoughts are.
Problem: Sometimes, pilots like to sit in the right seat and pretend they are the First Officer and not the Captain of the flight.
Solution: Could we make it so that there is an option to have Simbrief “assign” a particular crew member for the flight?
Example: a checkbox or drop down for Flight Crew member assignment. The options would be Auto assigned or manually assigned. If auto assigned is selected, then the manual entry box for that crew member either would be greyed out or would disappear entirely, and then Simbrief would auto-generate a random name onto the Dispatch Release like it currently already does.
Details: The checkbox or dropdown option would go next to each crew member (one next to Captain, one next to First Officer, and one next to Dispatcher). This way, if someone is doing shared cockpit, then they can manually enter both the Captain and First Officer’s names. As well, if they are being dispatched by a certain real world person, then the Dispatcher’s name can be manually entered in as well. However, if the flight is being built by the flight crew and not by a dispatcher, then they could have the option to have the dispatcher be a random generated name by Simbrief (if the checkbox or drop down is set to auto assigned for instance).
Likewise, if someone is flying by themself in the right seat, then they could have the option to have the Captain be auto assigned by Simbrief.
The default would be the following:
Captain - manually assigned (i.e. name entry permitted)
First Officer - auto assigned (i.e. name entry not permitted)
Dispatcher - auto assigned (i.e. name entry not permitted)
Curious what everyone else’s thoughts are on this concept.