Save a crew member’s name for the whole trip
Currently I have to enter my FO’s name on every leg. This can be over 20 legs per trip. I should be able to enter the name once and click a box to apply it to each leg. If the FO changes during the trip, I should be able to enter the new name and it automatically saves that name for the duration of the trip, or until I tell it otherwise. And so on...
This is already built into APDL. Under Settings/General there is an option for “auto forward crew”. Crew entered will be forwarded when each flight is completed. The intended use sequence is you fly the flight and enter the crew name. When saving, the crew names are forwarded to the next flight. When you open the next flight, they are already there and do not need to be reentered. Deadhead flights stop this autoforward as no crew is on a deadhead, so crew must be reentered once after a deadhead.
If you enter crew names ahead of time before flying the trip, you will have to do as you describe and enter each one.