I do about 60 releases a day ...

[rvsm410]

In my travels, I have been surprised at how many SOC's are like this.....fly and forget.....I am glad that some airlines have flight followers to help out...90 to 100 are crazy.....The FAA should step in in that OPeration...they know its impossible to follow that flt load....

 

[405]

We've grown so much over the past five years, they had to change it. I'm not saying we had 90-100 releases every day but it wasn't uncommon. These days, we're understaffed so we may do 70-75 if we have a sick call or an open slot on the schedule gets looked over but most days each dispatcher has around 50 flights to release.

 

[Bart Simpson]

Tap Tap Send

 

[405]

In my travels, I have been surprised at how many SOC's are like this.....fly and forget.....I am glad that some airlines have flight followers to help out...90 to 100 are crazy.....The FAA should step in in that Operation...they know its impossible to follow that flt load....

The FAA has already been there and seen our operation. Like I've stated twice before, it has gotten a lot better than it was.

And it's not "Fly and Forget" or "Tap Tap Send", it's "Release, File, Forget". That's what we used to call it.

 

[rvsm410]

Sorry Not Knocking you're operation, I was only replying to your post of 90 to 100 releases per shift....

Back in the day @ATL..you guess, we avg 60 per shift....I felt it was a bit much to do everything per the Regs..but as I got faster I was also able to devide my IFR/VFR work load so I could pay attention to the guys that really needed it....even so it was tough when the Wx was bad...I am gald to see my airline has ATC coordinators which really helps us expedite certain flight requests through the system, especially in the NE...its been a bear lately with all that rain....cant wait till winter!

 

[405]

Sorry Not Knocking you're operation, I was only replying to your post of 90 to 100 releases per shift....

Back in the day @ATL..you guess, we avg 60 per shift....I felt it was a bit much to do everything per the Regs..but as I got faster I was also able to devide my IFR/VFR work load so I could pay attention to the guys that really needed it....even so it was tough when the Wx was bad...I am gald to see my airline has ATC coordinators which really helps us expedite certain flight requests through the system, especially in the NE...its been a bear lately with all that rain....cant wait till winter!

I don't mind anyone knocking our operation. It needs improvement. Any improvements that were supposed to happen are on the back burner with NW's BK going on.

 

[Bart Simpson]

Almost hit the triple digit mark today on my tap tap sends.

 

[hoover]

Today I will prepare 56 dispatch releases. During my shift 37 flights will takeoff & land. 9 flights will be in the air when I turn over to my relief.

I don't like to think of it in terms of "How many releases?".

 

[hoover]

Today I will prepare 56 dispatch releases. During my shift 37 flights will takeoff & land. 9 flights will be in the air when I turn over to my relief.

I don't like to think of it in terms of "How many releases?".

 

[homerjdispatch]

Today I will prepare 56 dispatch releases. During my shift 37 flights will takeoff & land. 9 flights will be in the air when I turn over to my relief.

I don't like to think of it in terms of "How many releases?".

37+9= 46 What about the other 10 releases?

 

[Bart Simpson]

Whats wrong with his math?
Thats how I calculate Burn...

 

[flyjumpseat]

The "New" version of Math.

 

[hoover]

37+9= 46 What about the other 10 releases?

They will not have taken off yet, giving the relieving dispatcher the opportunity to make any changes he sees fit.

 

[homerjdispatch]

Fair enough.

 

[FlightOpsAB]

We only do about 6 or 7 per shift (and that's on a BUSY day), but pretty much all of them are built from scratch, and about half are ETOPS/Reclear FPs

 

[propsarebest]

U work at NAO 'eh??

I usrd to worka at a place that handled yer suntrips flights. I always liked the 15 minute radio call that the crews sent after getting off the ground.

Why are all of your airplanes in kilos?

 

[FlightOpsAB]

Yea, our crews have to relay the departure info to the ground handlers cos we're too cheap to have ACARS
We're using kilos because of all the lovely places in the world that we go to that don't use lbs. We do a lot of AMC flying, so we go to the Middle East, etc, so the for ease of operations they decided to use kilos.

 

[twabudman]

agreed on the kilos thing....Intl airlines use kilos and not lbs....

too bad yr dispatch mngr doesnt know a thing...I feel sorry for u !!!

 

[SKC]

agreed on the kilos thing....Intl airlines use kilos and not lbs....

We use both, as some aircraft are based on kgs, while others are lbs. AMC or not we don't change just for the location. If they get a lbs aircraft, they deal in lbs, etc.

 

[FlightOpsAB]

We use both, as some aircraft are based on kgs, while others are lbs. AMC or not we don't change just for the location. If they get a lbs aircraft, they deal in lbs, etc.

Both? I can see how that can get confusing.
I was sitting in with the new hire class of pilots over here and most of those guys are straight from the regionals, and they were all groanin n moaning about switching to the metric system.
You know, come to think of it AMC themselves use lbs. We just use metric for ease of comm with ground handlers worldwide

I guess