Dispatch licence in europe
 

Hello all.

I am curious to know, if someone can shed a light on the requirements and possibilitys for a dispatch licence in Europe?
I am currently working as a OPS load controller for a big german charter airline. I am not directly employed with them for reasons of saving money. They wont accept any new staff at the moment. Never the less I do OPS stuff like load control/planning, ground to air communication, writing movments etc. but no route planning, slot coordination etc.
I am experienced with a wide variety of aircraft including widebodys like A330s.

The job is good fun and I like what I am doing for almost three years now.
But still, I am tempted to learn more about dispatch. I allready work with a dispatch programm (www.danur.com) at home and create routes I fly in flightsim (its more realistic than some might think, dont bash for doing flightsim stuff).
Therefore I really would like to get into the dispatch stuff.
What possibilitys are there in europe to get such a licence for a fair ammount of money? The thing that Lufthansa offers is to expensive and I have not heared of others yet. Only that it is also somehow possible to obtain a licence in the US. Is this licence valid in europe?

Some hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards and thanks in advance.

Jan

jeppesen also offer dispatch courses:
http://www.jeppesen.com/wlcs/index.j...anagement2.jsp

you will recieve the faa license after completing the course.

problem a:
in germany, although it is not mandatory to hold an lba licence for working as a dispatcher, an faa license will not help you getting a job in any lh/de/lcag/cl occ because they require the lba licence. heard rumors that even hf requires the lba license for new dispatchers...

problem b:
so what´s left for potential work as a dispatcher with an faa licence?
ab: salary not too good
lt: dunno how long they will exist...
4u: they were recently looking for a dispatcher/ops ctrl officer (no licence mandatory), dunno about the salary
4r: same
c9: same

problem c:
the demand for new dispatchers is not very high in germany. the output of the lh flighttraining dispatch courses exceeds the market´s demands,
so you do have a lot of new unemployed dispatchers holding the lba licence every year.
and these dispatchers will in my eyes be preferred by the companies. not because the training was better than jeppesen training, but it was more comrehensive due to the lba dispatch licence requirements.

so all in all it´s not a good moment to get a licence these days...
cheers
ralle

Thanks for your kind reply Ralle.
It really helps a lot and sheds some new light on this.

Thanks again.

Jan