LEX ASTRA ACADEMY FD 130 / Crew resource management Lex Astra · Foundation teaching team Teaching edition 2956.3 / Hybrid ———————————————————————————————————————————————— LEARNER WORKSHEET For crew members preparing to share navigation, communications and monitoring. This is a private working copy. Downloading submits nothing and records no completion. Use exercise identifiers, not private player information. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SESSION DETAILS Learner identifier: ____________________________________________________________ Instructor / assessor: ____________________________________________________________ Session date / agreed role or variant: ____________________________________________________________ Vessel, configuration and equipment: ____________________________________________________________ LIVE build / capability test date / tested by (if practical): ____________________________________________________________ Stop signal / recovery contact / communication arrangement: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PURPOSE Share a watch’s workload, challenge conflicting information and hand over without dropping a task. COURSE CONTEXT A coordinated movement depends on several stations at once. Foundation practice exposes a small workload conflict before it becomes an unattended watch. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ENTRY Complete: FD 100 Equipment: Two crew members, an observer and a shared task board. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CASE: Two people, three urgent tasks 1. Aster tracks the approach; Relay contacts Receiving. 2. A status check also needs attention. The crew has only these two people. 3. Aster is then asked to troubleshoot the main channel. Text remains available. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND GAME SKILLS Two-person movement and mutual support Practical instruction revision 1 / 9 October 2026 Move without masking your partner In an agreed PvE exercise area, assign a route and a sector to each player. Keep enough separation to avoid blocking movement or occupying the same line of fire, but remain close enough to exchange clear calls. Use solid scenery as cover rather than relying on foliage or darkness. Before crossing a partner’s view, announce the crossing and wait for acknowledgement; do not step through a firing weapon. Alternate movement and observation Practise with unloaded or holstered weapons first. One player observes the relevant approach from cover while the other moves to the next visible piece of cover. The moving player reports “set” only after arriving, orienting and being ready to observe. Then exchange roles. This is not a promise that scenery stops every round: test the training area and avoid relying on unverified collision or cover behaviour. Keep a squad functioning under load Announce a reload, healing action or inventory task before becoming unavailable. Do not have both players manage inventory at once in an exposed position. If a teammate is incapacitated, first locate the threat and an accessible recovery route; a second player rushing into the same exposed spot can create a second casualty. Let one person coordinate while another remains available to observe. PRACTICAL DRILL Move a two-person team between three pieces of cover, exchange roles, then inject a reload and a simulated casualty. Repeat with one missed “set” call; the observing player must not abandon coverage until the state is resolved. OBSERVED-SKILL CHECKS Movement preserves complementary observation and avoids crossing an active firing line. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Reload and treatment calls cause a deliberate coverage change. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ The team responds to the casualty without leaving every role unattended. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Apply the technical checks in the agreed role. Discussion and simulation do not certify live handling; Crew Support evidence does not confer Pilot qualification. GAME REFERENCES The linked pages were read for this revision. Community references mix release eras; each source note identifies what is used and what is excluded. Technical explanations below are an Academy synthesis, and drills and performance checks are Academy-designed. Before practice, compare the named actions with the installed LIVE build and actual equipment. Bind actions by name rather than copying old default keys. Research is not an in-game validation. Star Citizen Wiki — Defend Occupants https://starcitizen.tools/Defend_Occupants A specific lawful bunker mission, shared access, allied NPCs and friendly-fire consequences. Other contracts have different conditions. Squad drills below are Academy teaching methods, not claimed game rules. Star Citizen Wiki — Controls https://starcitizen.tools/Guide:Controls Control categories, movement axes and targeting concepts. The page contains legacy bindings and flight-system descriptions; use the installed game’s bindings, not its key table. Star Citizen Wiki — Medical https://starcitizen.tools/Medical Body-part injuries, Hemozal, symptom medication, BDL, bed tiers and regeneration. Ship tables, resource costs and ranges change; inspect the actual bed and tool. Official LIVE release check: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 1: Give each task an owner List the tasks that need attention now and assign each to one person. Ask them to confirm. Name a backup for a task that cannot be left unattended; telling everyone to watch everything leaves nobody clearly responsible. Workload depends on simultaneous demands, not the number of names on the roster. One person may cover navigation and reporting during quiet transit but not while troubleshooting a failed station on approach. Identify the busy transition in advance and decide which task will be delayed or transferred when attention becomes scarce. Practise: Allocate navigation, receiving contact and a status check between two people. Ready when: Every task has an accepted owner and an agreed response if that person is overloaded. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 2: Challenge the detail, not the person State the mismatch, explain its consequence and ask for a check. For example: “The route says A; Receiving says B. Which destination has accepted us?” Resolve the conflicting information before carrying out the affected action. Make a challenge specific enough to act on: state the observation, its consequence and the requested check. If the first challenge is missed, repeat it explicitly and ask for acknowledgement. Deference should not turn an unresolved contradiction into a movement order; the decision owner must resolve it or hold the affected action. Practise: Resolve two different destination reports. Ready when: You identify the conflict and obtain one instruction that the affected crew acknowledge. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 3: Hand over the unfinished work Explain current conditions, outstanding tasks and the next check. Ask the incoming person to repeat what they are taking on. If the load is too high, reduce or redistribute it before the outgoing person leaves. A useful relief contains the present state, the next expected change and the condition requiring escalation. Ask the incoming operator what they will do first. That question tests whether responsibility has transferred more reliably than asking “All clear?” and gives the outgoing operator one final chance to correct a misunderstanding. Practise: Change roles with one receiving check still open. Ready when: The incoming crew member accepts a manageable task list and knows where to get support. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— WORKED DECISION Navigation is asked to fix communications during approach. The watch leader transfers the receiving call to a backup rather than leaving progress monitoring unattended. 1. Put all three tasks on the board. Assign ownership explicitly instead of asking both people to “keep an eye on it.” 2. Aster reports the conflict: troubleshooting would interrupt approach monitoring. The watch leader holds the approach or moves the contact task to a workable arrangement. 3. At relief, the incoming person reads back the still-pending status check and its next report. The outgoing person leaves only after acceptance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR EXERCISE Run the workload change and rotate roles. Explain which task you delayed, reassigned or stopped and what consequence that avoided. WHAT CHANGES One crew member loses access to a station while holding two tasks. My decision and reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR WORKING RECORD Task / accepted owner / backup ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Workload conflict / consequence / agreed change ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Incoming owner / unfinished task / next report ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CHECK YOUR REASONING Should a watch leader treat a workload warning as refusal? My answer before consulting the explanation: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— EVIDENCE TO KEEP A task board and individual observations of challenge, reassignment and handover. Criterion 1: Every task has an accepted owner and an agreed response if that person is overloaded. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 2: You identify the conflict and obtain one instruction that the affected crew acknowledge. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 3: The incoming crew member accepts a manageable task list and knows where to get support. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— FINDINGS AND NEXT ATTEMPT Demonstrated: observed work meets the criterion. Further practice required: an observed gap needs a specific practice task. Interrupted: conditions prevented valid assessment; not a failure. Not assessed: enough evidence has not yet been collected. All three criteria need individual evidence. A team result or quiz cannot replace an unobserved practical. Practice variant for a fresh attempt: Make the receiving call, rather than navigation, the overloaded task. Keep the same requirement to identify and resolve the conflict. My next practice task: ____________________________________________________________ Review contact: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— COMPARE AFTER ANSWERING No. First identify what cannot be covered and what would be missed. Reassign, delay or reduce the task; the warning provides information the plan needs. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SOURCE AND EDITION Academy Ordinance /academy/archives/academy-ordinance Governs instruction, individual assessment, conduct and review. This course turns those duties into crew practice. The lessons are current Academy teaching, not newly discovered historical records. Lex Astra opened in 2891. Historical sources keep their original issuer and date; all case callsigns, quantities, times and conditions are supplied for practice. Course text revised 8 October 2026; fictional teaching edition 2956.3. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Instruction revised 9 October 2026. Lex Astra cases supply the teaching situations. Professional references inform communication, decision-making and instructional design; they do not confer external qualifications. LIVE capabilities remain subject to the recorded session check. FAA · crew resource management (2004 reference) https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_120-51E.pdf AHRQ · structured team communication https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/index.html RSI · official onboarding https://robertsspaceindustries.com/playstarcitizen ———————————————————————————————————————————————— INSTRUCTOR CHECK Try the exercise with the ship and equipment you will use. Brief station assignments, callsigns, channel and recovery point. Explain the command “Stop exercise” before starting. If a bug prevents completion, repeat the affected task when it works. Ask before recording the session; use player handles in your notes. Review rules: /academy/archives/academy-ordinance Teaching basis: /academy/framework#research