As a licenced dispatcher myself I can assure you that FAA dispatchers have been guiding aircraft around the worst wx for a good number of years now. Big airlines with extensive networks divide the contiguous states into sectors and in each sector the wx radar is monitored continously. That's domestic, internatational doesn't get monitored with such vigilance as the facilities on offer (euroland) don't stack up.
The case for JAA recognition of dispatchers, ops controllers, what ever you want to call them, is compelling. I tried to get you lot going on the subject some months earlier, sadly to no avail.
UKOMA what are you doing about this?? Stop hedging your management bets and start lobbying in earnest for what you all know is right.
Good luck to you all I hope you get what you and above all air safety deserves. There's a few bob in this too so get going now
