By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The TCAS alert came through on ACARS as a post-flight report: “RA EVENT. FL350. CLIMB ISSUED. SEPARATION ACHIEVED.” The crew’s debrief note was three lines long. They had been cruising at 35,000 feet over the East China Sea when TCAS detected … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The braking action report came in seven minutes before our aircraft was on final approach: “POOR. Runway 14L. Reported by B737 at 1423Z.” I pulled up the landing distance calculation immediately. Our aircraft needed 1,840 metres to stop under normal conditions. … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The crew reported it as a “severe jolt” that lasted approximately four seconds. They were 7 nautical miles behind an Airbus A380 on approach to the same runway — well outside the standard ATC separation minimum, or so the initial report … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The message came through 22 minutes after departure: “ENGINE INDICATING ABNORMAL OIL PRESSURE. RETURNING TO BASE.” I already had the aircraft’s current fuel load on my screen — 142 tonnes at takeoff, burning approximately 9 tonnes per hour per engine. Maximum … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The ACARS came in at cruise: “CARGO SMOKE. FWD HOLD. DESCENDING.” Three words and an altitude trend — that was all I needed to shift every other task off my desk. Within 60 seconds I had the nearest three divert airports … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The ACARS message came in at 14:37 KST. EMER DESCENT INITIATED. CABIN ALT UNCONTROLLED. SQUAWKING 7700. I had been tracking that aircraft — a narrowbody on the Seoul–Osaka sector — for the last hour. Now the altitude readout was dropping fast. … Read more
By Aeruxo_DISP_H | FAA Aircraft Dispatcher Certificate (United States) · Korean MOLIT Flight Dispatcher License · 15+ years active dispatch at a Northeast Asian LCC, ICN hub · Graduate researcher, Korea Aerospace University About the Author → The ATIS at Gimpo was reporting 50 meters RVR. To put that in perspective: standing at one end … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations The call came in at 2:14 in the morning. “Dispatch, this is the captain on Hotel-Juliet-Lima. We have hydraulic pressure loss on system two. We’re declaring PAN PAN. Request priority handling at Incheon and emergency services on standby.” Within 90 seconds, … Read more
By Aeruxo_DISP_H | FAA Aircraft Dispatcher Certificate (United States) · Korean MOLIT Flight Dispatcher License · 15+ years active dispatch at a Northeast Asian LCC, ICN hub · Graduate researcher, Korea Aerospace University About the Author → The pilot’s voice was calm: “Incheon Dispatch, we just took a lightning hit. No abnormal indications. Continuing to … Read more
By Aeruxo — Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations You’re flying over the Pacific. Three hours in — nothing but ocean below. No land. No ships. Just water in every direction. Then a question hits you: what happens if one engine fails right now? The answer is not what most … Read more