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I wrote an article for a website a few years ago. Follow this link, and in the top left corner, there is a link to Air Traffic Control Links and Articles. Under there is an article titled: A Routine Summer Workday for a Major Airline Dispatcher (Should be regional...I didn't title it myself)...

I received my dispatch certificate in 1998 after attending a 6-week course at one of the dispatch schools in southern Florida. The course is basically an in-depth instrument training course (using 121 regs), along with transport category aircraft systems, followed by the ATP Written Exam, and a...

New PTS for the commercial check-ride???!!!

Travelers want as many options as possible when booking their flights...'Every hour on the hour please....if you don't offer what we want, we're going with another carrier.' So the airlines say, okay, we'll make planning your travel as convenient as possible for you. Lots of volume, lower...

Pharmaceutical Naming FAIL?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId5izj6cHQ

I went through this with an airline in 2004. It's always tough when a relatively small company goes out of business. There were many great people there that worked very well together, and they were probably closer with these folks than with many of their family members. For some it will...

Yep. We would get a few calls a month from Center asking if we could get in touch with flight xxx, and have them come up on whatever the handoff freq was.

Correct, and one of the answer choices had to do with temperature, so add "From hot to cold, look out below" As stated by Ron, indicated altitude vs true altitude is affected by temperature as well.

Congratulations - Nice write up as well.

Yikes - the mountains are hanging from the sky

You know, during my personal de-brief, I've decided that's part of the problem. We had about 15-20 minutes of pre-flight briefing in the classroom dicussing "Slow Flight." I discussed when slow flight conditions will exist, aerodynamics of slow flight, power/flap settings, and what...

Our first time out - the instructor mentioned it was a bit hazy - I could see about 30 miles! I used to be happy when vis on the east coast was 5-6sm. Thanks to the others for the replies, and I agree with all of them. Ron - you're not far off - my PPL was about 15 years ago - long...

So, I finally got enough cash saved up to get started on my CFI training. Before I get too deep in this - all my flying has been done on the east coast - flying here in DEN is AMAZING in comparison!!! Alright, back to the topic - While building $$$ I got my AGI and put together some ground...

Nice work Brook - BTW - I was sitting around the FBO the other day, and saw you in the Flight Training article...I knew you had a few CFI's, but had no idea it was THAT many!!!

PJ - congrats on the new certificate and part-time gig. I had a similar scenario - got my AGI, then started teaching a PPL ground school shortly after. I just signed off my first class for their writtens a couple weeks ago. As far a logging, I just keep a separate notebook with the topics...