Course Highlights
  • Understand what is a flight plan and airline operational control
  • Learn all basic stages of flight planning and understand the role of a flight dispatcher
  • Understand practical aircraft limitations and performance
  • Learn how to find the optimum flight route and what can impact the route planning
  • Learn how fuel is planned for a flight and how it impacts operational expenses of the flight
  • Understand basic aviation weather
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

2 Topics
Introduction to the course
Course content

3 Topics
Civil Aviation Organizations and Regulations
Flight plan Flight dispatcher and Operational control: definitions and purpose
Quiz

9 Topics
Aircraft Weights and Structural limitations (Part 1)
Aircraft Weights and Structural limitations (Part 2)
Take off performance limitations (Part 1)
Take off performance limitations (Part 2)
Required distance for landing
Take off Performance calculation case study
Aircraft range
Other limitations to consider
Quiz

6 Topics
Basic route considerations and definitions
Flight distances and the shortest route
The most efficient route
Cost Index concept
Why we do not always fly the most efficient routes?
Quiz

6 Topics
Basic Fuel considerations and definitions
Minimum Required Block Fuel
Why extra fuel is needed?
Fuel Tankering
Conventional Aviation Fuel types
Quiz

5 Topics
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Basic weather considerations and definitions
Surface weather
Upper weather
Quiz

2 Topics
Recap of all of the knowledge
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Airline Operations: Flight Planning and Flight Dispatch

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