As you’ve been reading, flying a jet single pilot is one of the most challenging piloting skills there is. It demands an unrelenting focus on the job at hand; the wherewithal to swap hats quickly; and the ability to use automation consistently and efficiently to ease the burden, especially during high-workload phases of flight. In fact, it’s safe to say that flying single pilot is in many ways an entirely new skill set. So it follows that the training for single-pilot certification is done in a different way than the majority of training for most business aircraft, which are required by the regs to be flown by a crew of two.
Traditionally, training as a crew involves a team of two going through the initial or recurrent process as a team, with the two pilots typically (though not always) switching off between the right and left seats.
