+1
I suggested in a crew idea mega thread that we should be able to hire more than 3 crew, but assign them to ships.
So when you switch ships, they're already waiting.
If you're not flying the ship, the crew is set as inactive and receives "inactive pay", which would be a much lower % of your income.
Then, you'll never forget crew again.
Ideally when you board the ship, you should get an audio and text greeting from the crew member onboard to remind you who's there. A simple "Welcome aboard commander!" would do.
I also went further to suggest you can fully crew one of your own ships, and then call that in as a wingman. But if it blows up, you lose the ship (but can pay the rebuy and retrieve it when you next dock) and crew members.
Plus a load of other stuff, but that's going off topic somewhat. Lol
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead