FAA Memo About Process to DFH - Dispatch From Home

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On March 20, the FAA put out a memo to all Air Carrier Safety Assurance managers regarding considerations to work through if a carrier wants to allow dispatching from home:

Seems more of a "Make sure you think/ask about ..." and not a "If the carrier does X, Y, and Z, dispatch from home will be approved."

Has anyone actually gotten this approved (or in the process of getting it approved)?
 
My recollection was that it said that certain problems needed to be solved, including drug testing, communication and security.

I, for one, don’t want my directors or managers anywhere near my apartment.

Not to mention for those that commute, it adds additional complexity. How do you drug test an employee dispatching from Memphis when they work in Minneapolis? Are they going to send an inflight manager to their home to collect the sample and escort them to the lab? They also can’t do the same kind of reasonable suspicion process they can do at an SOC.

It’s a dead horse.

Edit: Well damn, looks like I was wrong, as much as I wanted to be right and see this die.
 
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I don't see this getting approved. My shop is working on a proposal like many other carriers but knowing FAA they've probably already made up their mind.
 
They are doing some testing at my shop, but it’s not approved yet. If it does get approved I think it would only be for special/unique circumstances like the ones we are experiencing right now. We will find out soon enough!
 
My place is also going all in on this. lots of bugs to work out of course but it IS happening.

Personally, I do not want any part of it. My home is not my workplace.
 
dx8709 said:
I don't see this getting approved. My shop is working on a proposal like many other carriers but knowing FAA they've probably already made up their mind.
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I've heard of at least one supplemental carrier that got it approved. Lots of shops pursuing it and it sounds like the FAA is at least open to listening. These are strange times.
 
My "shop" has gotten approval and I've bee dicksracthing from home for about 2 weeks. Basic process, at home kids build releases and then the in office supervisors quickly approve and send when due. We do flight following, ala Fusion and all manuals are online. We have nice new computers, EFB's, company mobile phone, nice big monitor,(works great with Xplane11!). We even have it approved to work from the local hotel with super-slippery wifi, ....for those that do not have wifi at home. I know, right? So our SOC is not totally shut down, Mx control, and crew sched are still there. Oh...that's the doorbell, pizza is here.... Later . oh, And for the nail-biters...no bosses, no sups, no FAA have been anywhere near my home.
 
yes 121. and to be perfectly honest, (tho its not required here, like grammar and spelling), we move all kinds of brown boxes with blue and black letters on them. People, not so much.
 
Troy McClure said:
yes 121. and to be perfectly honest, (tho its not required here, like grammar and spelling), we move all kinds of brown boxes with blue and black letters on them. People, not so much.
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Interesting. Don't think I like the idea of a supervisor being the releasing dispatcher of my flights.
 
QXDX said:
I've been working from home for 2 weeks. There's nothing that's done in the office that can't be done from home. The technology is pretty simple. Just a VPN connection. The biggest obstacle is getting past the mindset that things have to be done from the office.
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Then it will only be a matter of time before jobs will be outsourced and we’ll join the unemployment line
 
paincorp said:
If it can be done remotely from home, why can’t it be done remotely from suburban Mumbai?
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Well they'd need a certificate for starters. Pilot unions would probably lose their mind if they had to work with Dell Tech Support to get a release with anything more than min fuel and I'm sure they could spin it as a safety issue. I spent some time testing the remote software and phones and I honestly think the logistical headaches are too much for it too be worth it.
 
Working from home is opening Pandora's box. There's a reason the elder folks have fought off any type of remote of an idea to let anything change in the industry as far as dispatching goes.

A license can be had by anyone in any country. Just go and ask ifod about their beautiful map on the wall. The pilots may pitch a fit. But in the end, someone will come in and tell them it works great in the EU. I'm sure they will probably busy fighting their own battle with the single crew member with automation next to them.

Let's stop giving in/up on our careers fellas. For the sake of our future that is. Dont forget, nowadays it's becoming easier and easier to do things remotely. Dispatching can't be one of them.
 
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