Having a Dispatcher License & MBA

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Dispatcher.....and proud of it !

Really, really tired of Professor Anonymous constant attempts to minimize the profession because he is Management.
 
I was management as well as a check dispatcher. No one passed my comp check that could not read a metar and taf. When I taught part 65. I would not let anyone go sit with a DADE that couldn't read a metar and taf.

Sure it's a somewhat quick and cheap certificate to get when compared against other certificates but that doesn't minimize the responsibility that the certificate lets you exercise.
 
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MT said:
I was management as well as a check dispatcher. No one passed my comp check that could not read a metar and taf. When I taught part 65. I would not let anyone go sit with a DADE that couldn't read a metar and taf. Sure it's a somewhat quick and cheap certificate to get when compared against other certificates but that doesn't minimize the responsibility that the certificate lets you exercise.
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I'm curious as to how it's actually possible to go through dispatch school, get signed off by the instructors to take the written, oral and practical exams AND have an examiner pass you without being able to read a METAR or TAF? Even worse, how can a licensed dispatcher can then get hired by an airline and pass a comp check without being able to do the simplest of tasks?!? The idea that this actually happens is appalling...and a true failure on every level from the aspiring-then licensed dispatcher, the school, examiners, hiring managers and lead dispatchers doing comp checks. What a failure of the system...
 
womanpilot73 said:
I'm curious as to how it's actually possible to go through dispatch school, get signed off by the instructors to take the written, oral and practical exams AND have an examiner pass you without being able to read a METAR or TAF? Even worse, how can a licensed dispatcher can then get hired by an airline and pass a comp check without being able to do the simplest of tasks?!? The idea that this actually happens is appalling...and a true failure on every level from the aspiring-then licensed dispatcher, the school, examiners, hiring managers and lead dispatchers doing comp checks. What a failure of the system...
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Exactly my point. True there are some license mills out there, but it is not nearly as rampant as some here were making you to believe. Regardless, this has gotten a touch silly. Can we go back to the happy board?
 
MT said:
Exactly my point. True there are some license mills out there, but it is not nearly as rampant as some here were making you to believe. Regardless, this has gotten a touch silly. Can we go back to the happy board?
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Lol...right?!? I'm with you on that one ;-)
 
Happy board...... What a sweet idea !

Reminds me of that scene in the kitchen with Mr Wolf in Pulp Fiction.....You know where he sez "How about we stop.....XXXXXX"
 
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Every major airline supported the FAA relaxing rules to outsource dispatching. If they could, they would have computers doing most of what we do.
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That is funny, because I looked through the public comments the last time a rule change to allow contact dispatching for US carriers was proposed, and I don’t recall a single major saying they were in favor of it.
 
Uh huh.......That ole boy is impugning our worth.....He is a Manager who wants us to feel like glorified clerks so we take less money than we are truly worth.

Some folks say I bring misery to this board......Stop a minute and recognize who the TRUE purveyor of misery is.....none other than AnonymousDxer !!!!

And you thought you could fool us......You sad, sad, little man !!!
 
I have a masters degree. I am an international dispatcher, trainer, and a union officer. I can read both metars and tafs. I was hired with a high school diploma, DD-214, dispatcher license, and a winning smile.

My manager has a GED. My manager is supposedly a qualified and current international dispatcher, but is signed off by non-union management dispatchers. My manager can not read metars or tafs, or even big words.

AnonymousDXer appears to be a troll with zero credibility and a superiority complex that is far from earned, just like a few of my managers and supervisors. And as manniax stated above, there was not a single major who expressed support for Jeppessen's failure.
 
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