I thought that is what I had said in my earlier posts by explaining the load control / traffic officer roles and also questioning not "W/B trained". I have worked in CLP and as a L/C and also worked on contracts where I acted just as a traffic officer. In every company I worked for there was always a mass/balance course. However for some of these places i use the term "training" loosely. But on the other side of the coin I had some excellent training on behalf of LH, BA, (some very good colleagues) and self study.
As NIBOR says:
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"Any dispatcher who does not wish to countersign a loadsheet either does not know if the aircraft is loaded correctly and therefore is risking the safety of all on board or is unable to accept the responibility the position requires and should not be in the job in the first place."
The job of a T/O (or ground dispatcher if you prefer) is to make sure that the A/C is loaded as per the LIR and Loadsheet because CLP are not there to see it. Therefore you should obviously have received some sort of training!
Personally I believe that CLP is inferior to having a dedicated dispatcher (appropriatley trained!!) allocated to each flight who personally prepares the Loadsheet!
---*see my earlier posts*--
The problem is that the job is being "dumbed" down mainly by the handling agents in an effort to pay peanuts and cut back on training costs.
WTD