If you have Effective communication, determination, compassionate consideration, and meticulous personality, then becoming a aircraft dispatcher is for you.
Flight dispatchers often work under pressure in fast-paced environments, especially in bad weather. Many quick decisions related to safety, flight regulation, and operational economics need to be made. These employees are surrounded by people, telexes, telephones and intercoms in a noisy and busy atmosphere. People who work for small airlines serve as meteorologists and flight planning coordinators.
Federal Aviation Regulations Part 121 requires flight dispatchers to sit in the cockpit jump seat for at least five hours in a calendar year on an "instructed flight." However, most airlines treat dispatchers like pilot cockpit crews and grant this excellent privilege indefinitely. Hundreds of other airlines around the world are aware of the importance of airline dispatchers and are free to expand their cockpit jump seat authority. This is one of the biggest benefits for the coordinator. The
Flight Dispatcher must be able to perform shift work, including day, night, weekends and holidays