[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR65.55]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 65_CERTIFICATION: AIRMEN OTHER THAN FLIGHT CREWMEMBERS--Table of 

Contents

 

                     Subpart C_Aircraft Dispatchers

 

Sec. 65.55  Knowledge requirements.



    (a) A person who applies for an aircraft dispatcher certificate must 

pass a knowledge test on the following aeronautical knowledge areas:

    (1) Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations of this chapter that 

relate to airline transport pilot privileges, limitations, and flight 

operations;

    (2) Meteorology, including knowledge of and effects of fronts, 

frontal characteristics, cloud formations, icing, and upper-air data;

    (3) General system of weather and NOTAM collection, dissemination, 

interpretation, and use;

    (4) Interpretation and use of weather charts, maps, forecasts, 

sequence reports, abbreviations, and symbols;

    (5) National Weather Service functions as they pertain to operations 

in the National Airspace System;

    (6) Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and 

avoidance;

    (7) Principles of air navigation under instrument meteorological 

conditions in the National Airspace System;

    (8) Air traffic control procedures and pilot responsibilities as 

they relate to enroute operations, terminal area and radar operations, 

and instrument departure and approach procedures;

    (9) Aircraft loading, weight and balance, use of charts, graphs, 

tables, formulas, and computations, and their effect on aircraft 

performance;

    (10) Aerodynamics relating to an aircraft's flight characteristics 

and performance in normal and abnormal flight regimes;

    (11) Human factors;

    (12) Aeronautical decision making and judgment; and

    (13) Crew resource management, including crew communication and 

coordination.

    (b) The applicant must present documentary evidence satisfactory to 

the administrator of having passed an aircraft dispatcher knowledge test 

within the preceding 24 calendar months.