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Yes the GCNS ICAO 7192 D3 Flt Ops Officer/Dispatcher course is still available and the early teething problems long since resolved. The course is not a college invention, its was driven by UK airlines and to the ICAO syllabus, the Glasgow College Natutical Studies is also a flight crew licence training establishment.
The course is more relevant now that ever with JAR and EASA using the ICAO 7192 D3 Flight Operations Officer/Dispatcher licence syllabus as the basis for operations officer training. We don't have a licence requirement (yet) but if and when we do then it will most probably be based on the ICAO recommendation and syllabus.
But, as important, is that this course and those to the ICAO syllabus, provide the fundemental knowledge every ops officer should have. The FAA licence where valuable is a US based qualification and of course focuses on FAR requirements, I would plump for the ICAO based course were I starting out again, then perhaps do the FAA licence unless you are working in the states or US carriers.
Last edited by no sig; 12th March 2006 at 12:13.