Boeing Dispatcher Certification Course

The first of its kind in the world, SriLankan Aviation College and Boeing partners up to offer you the Dispatcher Certification Course from the Jeppesen Academy, complete with on the job training at the SriLankan Airlines headquarters.

Indoctrinated by the national flag carrier of Sri Lanka who operates both wide and narrow bodies on long and short haul flights, this flight dispatch training is guaranteed to equip you with all the skills that you need to compete within a competitive market.

Contact us on +94 (0) 19 733 4000 or email us on training@srilankan.com to register and for more information!

Flight Operations Management - Level 1

This course prepares you with fundamental dispatch knowledge and is a required course at approved NAA training centers around the world. Upon successful completion, you will transition into the FOM-2 course.

What you will learn

1. Aviation Law, Treaties and Agencies
2. Form of the Earth
3. Meteorology
4. Aircraft Systems
5. Navigation
6. Weight and Balance exercises
7. Basic Aerodynamics
8. Basic Flight Planning

Entry requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• High school graduate or international equivalent education.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate in the English Language.

Course length

1 week

Training methods

• Classroom Lessons
• Classroom Lectures
• Practical Exercises

Flight Operations Management - Level 2

This traditional classroom-based course prepares you to take the written, oral and practical exams, and upon successful completion, you will receive a Certificate of Graduation and have an opportunity to obtain your FAA aircraft dispatcher certificate. Our graduates work in dispatch careers around the world and there continues to be strong demand for qualified candidates.

What you will learn

This section orients the student to the course as a whole and to the expectations for completion

This lesson covers applicable FARs relating to both:

This lesson covers basic weather studies, such as:

This lesson teaches principles of air navigation under IMC conditions in the NAS. It ensures that students have adequate knowledge of applicable navigation instruments.
It includes the following topics:

This lesson teaches aircraft loading, weight and balance, use of charts, graphs, tables, formulas, and computations and their effect on aircraft performance. It also discusses aerodynamics relating to an aircraft’s flight characteristics and performance in normal and abnormal flight regimes. It ensures that students have an adequate knowledge of:

This lesson teaches crew resource management, including crew communication and coordination. It includes the following topics:

This lesson teaches air traffic control procedures and pilot responsibilities as they relate to enroute operations, terminal area and radar operations, and instrument departure and approach procedures. It includes the following topics:

This lesson teaches roles and responsibilities in emergency situations. It includes the following topics:

This lesson teaches practical applications of the knowledge taught in the previous lessons. It helps prepare students for the FAA Practical Test. It includes the following topics:

1. Introduction
2. Federal Aviation Regulations
   • Airline transport pilot privileges, limitations, and flight operations
   • Dispatcher role and responsibilities, limitations and expectations
3. Meteorology
   • Knowledge and effects of fronts, frontal characteristics, cloud formations, icing, and upper-air data
   • General system of weather and NOTAM collection, dissemination, interpretation and use
   • Interpretation and use of weather charts, maps, forecasts, sequence reports, abbreviations, and symbols.
   • National Weather Service functions as they pertain to operations in the National Airspace System
   • Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and avoidance
   • Principles of air navigation under instrument meteorological conditions in the National airspace System
4. Navigation
   • Study of the Earth
   • Dead reckoning
   • Types of Navigation
   • Types of Navaids
   • Radio Navigation
   • Navigational Instruments
   • Chart reading
5. Aircraft
   • applicable aircraft flight instruments and systems, and their operating characteristics
   • aircraft systems and components
   • normal, abnormal, and emergency operating procedures
   • use of correct terminology
   • voperating handbook or flight manual with regard to flight instruments, navigation instruments and avionics systems, aircraft systems, minimum equipment list, and operations specifications as appropriate.
   • performance limitations
6. Communications
   • Radio-telephone rules and regulations
   • FCC rules and regulations
   • Company communications
   • FAA communications
7. Air Traffic Control
   • Air route traffic control procedures and equipment
   • Airport traffic control procedures and equipment
   • Various ATC agencies
   • Airport familiarization
   • Emergency and Abnormal Procedures
   • Practical Dispatching
   • Airspace
   • Notams
8. Emergency and Abnormal Procedures
   • Security measures on the ground
   • Security measures in the air
   • FAA responsibility and service
   • Collection and dissemination of information
9. Practical Dispatching
   • Human Factors
   • Preflight
   • In-flight
   • Position report
   • Post flight

On the Job training

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Entry requirements

• Completed Level 1 course
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• High school graduate or international equivalent education.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate in the English Language.

Course length

6 Weeks

Training Methods

• Classroom Lessons
• Classroom Lectures
• Practical Exercises

Accommodation & Visa

We are happy to assist you in every way possible to arrange your visa and to find suitable accommodations for you during your period of study. Just ask us! Glad to be of help!