The adoption of SOPs has led to significant improvements in safety for airlines and professionally flown aircraft. Unfortunately, this concept isn't normally discussed in the initial flight training environment, and new pilots usually aren't exposed to SOPs until they start flying professionally. SOPs should be taught from the beginning, and this session will explore how all pilots can adopt SOPs suited to their operation, including a framework to build their own SOPs, and a discussion of FAA Advisory Circular 120-71B.