Course Content

Our approved FAA Dispatch Certification course provides our students with the ability to earn an Aircraft Dispatch certificate.  We offer our students a variety of learning tools throughout our program including but not limited to:

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• FAR/FC

• FAR/AIM

• CX-3 Calculator

• Flight Operations Manual

• Aviation Weather Handbook

• Gleim Test Prep Software

• FAA Test Supplement

• 1-year access to our Flight Dispatch Network App​

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Students will be required to have a laptop or iPad for the program as we access real world applications and tools that dispatchers use on the desk!

Our course is FAA approved and covers all subjects outlined in 14 CFR Part 65 Appendix A and meets the requirements of 14 CFR Part 65.55 which include:

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• A person who applies for an aircraft dispatcher certificate must pass a knowledge test on the following aeronautical knowledge areas:

• Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations of this chapter that relate to airline transport pilot privileges, limitations, and flight operations;

• Meteorology, including knowledge of and effects of fronts, frontal characteristics, cloud formations, icing, and upper-air data;

• General system of weather and NOTAM collection, dissemination, interpretation, and use;

• Interpretation and use of weather charts, maps, forecasts, sequence reports, abbreviations, and symbols;

• National Weather Service functions as they pertain to operations in the National Airspace System;

• Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and avoidance;

• Principles of air navigation under instrument meteorological conditions in the National Airspace System;

• Air traffic control procedures and pilot responsibilities as they relate to enroute operations, terminal area and radar operations, and instrument departure and approach procedures;

• Aircraft loading, weight and balance, use of charts, graphs, tables, formulas, and computations, and their effect on aircraft performance;

• Aerodynamics relating to an aircraft's flight characteristics and performance in normal and abnormal flight regimes;

• Human factors;

• Aeronautical decision making and judgment; and

• Crew resource management, including crew communication and coordination.

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