Flight Dispatch 98 User Manual

Getting started: setting up your first route, aircraft and flights.

These pages explain how to use Flight Dispatch 98. For training in the work itself, such as tracking aircraft and reading weather charts, see the CATS Training Materials in the Bookmarks menu.

Contents

• Leasing: dry and wet leases, and delivery
• Airport slots: flying to the busiest airports
• Maintenance: checks, engine overhauls and grounding
• Crew: the roster, pilots, engineers, hiring and training
• Which aircraft flies what: sharing flights out, and moving them
• Flights and passengers: a flight’s details, and delaying or cancelling it
• The map: where each aircraft was last known to be, and asking one for a report
• The operating report: utilisation, idle time and costs
• Faxes and briefs: the fax filing, and what Network Planning asks for
• Aircraft types: the facts about each type, and the manufacturers’ websites
• Cabin classes: F, J, W and Y, and how a cabin is written
• Airfields: airport codes, aerodrome reference codes and steep approaches
• Times: UTC and local time, block time and turnaround
• The weather map: the surface chart and the significant weather chart
• Weather reports: reading a METAR, SPECI or TAF, and each country’s form of them
• Glossary: the industry’s delay codes and abbreviations
• Movement messages: reading an MVT or ASM, and the aircraft’s own messages
• The terminal: typing commands at the console
• Keyboard shortcuts

More pages are on the way.