Top Schools for Aircraft Dispatcher?
January 20, 2010
Hi guys,
Does anyone know any very good schools (FAA certified) for aircraft/flight dispatcher training that is also reasonably afforable? If so, how much? Also, how long can it take to obtain license/certification for flight dispatch from the FAA? Is this career exciting and enjoyable? If someone here actually went to school to become a flight dispatcher and can help me answer these questions, I truly appreciate your help. Thank you.
Hey b2, if you dont mind, can you tell me how much you started out making, and then how much your annual salary was as your years progressed in this career? Thanks a lot.
I am a retired (Delta)aircraft dispatcher and teach at Falcon Aviation Academy, in Newnan, Georgia. Our tuition for the course is $4,200. Our school is certified by the FAA, and one of the tops in the industry. Our classes are always 200 hours, which can be broken over 10 weeks, or 5 weeks. We have one starting today that is from 1700-2200, Mon-Thur. We are flexible, depending on the students. Visit us on-line for more info.
Can you go through a hurricane in a Cessna?
January 20, 2010
I appreciate the answers fellas, but if I go into one, I am going head first right through the heart of it.
Not Recommended.
But if you really want to try, use a low wing Cessna like a Cessna 400 or other low wing planes. If you fly into the Hurricane fly with the prevailing winds meaning flying with the counter rotation of the storm. This will reduce the turbulence but not by much but enough to make the ride safer than flying right in to it. When Hurricane Hunters fly into Hurricanes they fly this route because a direct bunch would put extreme pressures on the planes structure which could buffet it to pieces. Reason is that the turbulence in a hurricane are rough at minimum to Extreme. With low wing aircraft the pressure exerted in the wings is reduced and spread evenly. With that said you could still be buffeted to the point of structural failure and wind up at the bottom of the Ocean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_400
DO NOT ATTEMPT in a Cessna 172 or other over wing plane. Reason the turbulence will push the wings upwards and then downwards causing them to break off or fold upwards, thus sending you to the bottom of the Ocean. The wings that are positioned high on a plane try their best to avoid severe or extreme turbulence for this very reason. There isn’t enough structural support for the wing and that is why you see the support beams most all over wing aircraft except the really large transports which have supper strong Internal skeletal systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172
4 Hurricane Hunter Planes have been lost since 1945 flying into or out of these storms.
Best bet avoid all thunder storms and Hurricanes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hunters
Where I can find samples of cessna cockpit sounds such as the stall warning horn?
January 20, 2010
I am looking for a site where I can find and download sounds typical of a cessna airplane cockpit, some of these sounds are the stall warning horn alarm, the avionics, landing gear warning.
Do a web search… Google, Dogpile?
Is it important whether or not a flight school is Cessna certified?
January 20, 2010
It’s a clause in a PPL scholarship I’m applying for and I wanted to know why.
Is a school less reputable if it does not have a Cessna certification?
What does the certification mean?
Does it mean the school is certified to fly Cessna-brand planes?
If it’s a clause in your scholarship, then Cessna might be involved in funding part of it.
So, if it’s a requirement, you’d need to train at one.
Having trained at both a Cessna Pilot Center and ones that weren’t, there really is no difference.
Only the training materials and syllabus varied.
The quality of the training is entirely dependent on the quality of the instructors.
I do prefer the course materials for the Cessna course. (Specifically, the instrument rating course)
