Advice for first 121 job?

A1TAPE said:
So with Fusion it will highlight it on your NOTAM list only or will it highlight the word on the release printout too? Its a "grey" and white printout so I doubt you can highlight things in the NOTAMS section of the flight release unless you told the printer to highlight every CLSD with a grey background and white lettering.
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It will highlight it when reading your NOTAMS in Fusion. Helps things jump out at you and makes reading them a bit faster. Will not highlight it in your release.
 
MarkM0228 said:
That's GOOD to know about Fusion! I'll have to try that out when I get on the desk soon. I wish I knew about it sooner, so I could have played with this feature during OJT; then, I could have gotten experience with this and known how to use it BEFORE going on the desk...
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You learn things in time. Everyone learns differently or a faster or slower pace. Another dispatcher was nice enough to showed me and I've used it since. Type in what you want. Out of service, OTS, clsd,closed. Thinges that you feel will be important to highlight.

Runway closed. ILS out of service. Etc.

A ton of features and tools you can use. Sometimes you don't get to them all. Sometimes I simply say hey...how'd you do that ?
 
Another thing with fusion NOTAMS... highlight "alternate" and check your FDC NOTAMS. I see fellow dispatchers completely disregard FDC NOTAMS all day long and completely miss alternate minimums NA. I think I have RWY, ILS, GS, LOC, ALTERNATE, and CLOSED highlighted in mine. I'm not at work so I'm not sure what else.

I think the best advice in this entire thread is pick a dispatcher you respect that does their job well, see what they're doing, and pick their brain. You can learn infinitely more from 1 good one than what you can from 5 who are going through the motions. There is one particular one at my shop I've learned more from than probably the rest combined.
 
av8or757 said:
It will highlight it when reading your NOTAMS in Fusion. Helps things jump out at you and makes reading them a bit faster. Will not highlight it in your release.
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I wonder if it was possible If the GA has the release already printed at the gate to call the airport and tell them to take a highlighter to the release and tell them what to highlight. YMMV. But It would be nice if the critical NOTAMS, like in FlightPlanGO, are highlighted in RED as to say, this is what will kill you. Rather than having a random CLSD or ALTERNATE in between a million PAPI/VASI UNREL or grass cutting NOTAMS.
 
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A1TAPE said:
I wonder if it was possible If the GA has the release already printed at the gate to call the airport and tell them to take a highlighter to the release and tell them what to highlight. YMMV. But It would be nice if the critical NOTAMS, like in FlightPlanGO, are highlighted in RED as to say, this is what will kill you. Rather than having a random CLSD or ALTERNATE in between a million PAPI/VASI UNREL or grass cutting NOTAMS.
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Oh man wouldn't that be great?
 
You do not want to create an environment where the pilots do not feel it is necessary to read their own notams. If you start highlighting things for them, then one day when they don't notice something important they will say "DISPATCH DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT IT!" We are supposed to work as a team, not spoon feed them.
 
AlphaSierra said:
You do not want to create an environment where the pilots do not feel it is necessary to read their own notams. If you start highlighting things for them, then one day when they don't notice something important they will say "DISPATCH DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT IT!" We are supposed to work as a team, not spoon feed them.
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Agreed! Not to mention "ain't nobody got time for that!" When you have 45 releases to work up.
 

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who'swho said:
Agreed! Not to mention "ain't nobody got time for that!" When you have 45 releases to work up.
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No •! I got grief from my trainers during OJT because I wanted to read the NOTAMS. I didn't do it so much for the pilots as I did to cover my ass. I've read about other airlines dispatching flights to closed airports, stuff like that, on this forum; I do NOT want to be THAT GUY! My trainers told me that, for anything really important, that LIDO will highlight it. I hope so. But yeah, when you have 45 releases to work up, got captains calling you with new ZFWs, etc., you don't have time for much of anything...
 
MarkM0228 said:
No ! I got grief from my trainers during OJT because I wanted to read the NOTAMS. I didn't do it so much for the pilots as I did to cover my ass. I've read about other airlines dispatching flights to closed airports, stuff like that, on this forum; I do NOT want to be THAT GUY! My trainers told me that, for anything really important, that LIDO will highlight it. I hope so. But yeah, when you have 45 releases to work up, got captains calling you with new ZFWs, etc., you don't have time for much of anything...
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I wonder though what LIDO will consider "really important" Some things it might not highlight can really make or break a flight.
 
MarkM0228 said:
No ! I got grief from my trainers during OJT because I wanted to read the NOTAMS. I didn't do it so much for the pilots as I did to cover my ass. I've read about other airlines dispatching flights to closed airports, stuff like that, on this forum; I do NOT want to be THAT GUY! My trainers told me that, for anything really important, that LIDO will highlight it. I hope so. But yeah, when you have 45 releases to work up, got captains calling you with new ZFWs, etc., you don't have time for much of anything...
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Screw your trainers, You do what you gottta do until you get your own flow down. If it means taking an extra 5 minutes to read EVERY notam then so be it.

That is the biggest problem with regional dispatching, its all production... the more releases per desk per shift the better. Screw that.

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QXSOUP said:
Screw your trainers, You do what you gottta do until you get your own flow down. If it means taking an extra 5 minutes to read EVERY notam then so be it.

That is the biggest problem with regional dispatching, its all production... the more releases per desk per shift the better. Screw that.

click click send.
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Man, you NAILED it...
 
Wasnt there a regional that was yelled at by the FAA for disiplining a DXr for not taking a higher than safe workload?
 
How long did it take you guys (that are current DX) to feel comfortable with the amount of work that the usual dispatcher takes on per day?

When you were new, did your company give you a few less flights to work until you figured it out?
 
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