Tag: scheduling and dispatching
SMS/IS-BAO Considerations for Schedulers & Dispatchers — Part 2: Implementing SMS
It’s important to take your time and do due diligence in implementing and managing an aviation safety management system (SMS). SMS needs to become integral to your overall corporate culture in order to achieve optimal performance and avoid potential pitfalls that could undermine and degrade the SMS system [...]
SMS/IS-BAO Considerations for Schedulers and Dispatchers – Part 1: Understanding SMS
Safety Management System (SMS) regulations have been implemented in various States around the world, and the expectation is that in the next five years, many more States will follow suit. Initially, these regulations will impact those States’ registered scheduled and non-scheduled (charter) commercial operations [...]
The Ultimate Pre-Trip Checklist for Business Aircraft Operators
Back in January, we shared with you an international pre-flight checklist to assist you with your trip planning, and we invited you to provide feedback on how we could make it better. Many of you accepted our invitation and came back with some GREAT ideas. So our checklist engineers went to work, and now we [...]
Even the Best of Us Can Forget. So Here’s a Checklist.
Added October 1, 2012:This post is out of date. An updated post on this topic can be found here. So you’re planning an important international flight. It’s a complicated business: You have to file a flight plan, check the weather, get permits, and so on. And if you’ve never planned an international flight or haven’t [...]
10 Trip Planning Considerations for Aircraft Schedulers and Dispatchers
There are many important elements that need to be considered to make an international trip run smoothly from an aircraft Scheduler and Dispatcher point of view. Challenges range from setting up international flight permits, to fuel planning, to developing effective programs, to dealing with an ever-increasing assortment of international regulatory compliance issues. That being said, [...]
