I'll tell you a joke. Is this on? Oh, we are. Welcome to a special edition of our To Be Named and you're welcome to suggest a name for it. But we're here to talk more about dispatching and life of dispatching. Joining me today is a special treat. He just got married. He's on vacation so he's got time to do this. Morgan. Morgan, thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me a bit. Appreciate it. It is a pleasure. We actually worked together, right? We do. Well, before he got a $5 raise and became an equipment coordinator, we used to work together. We still worked together. Okay, a little further over. That's right. And a little more money. But we are excited because I brought Morgan along today to answer some questions that you have asked since my last video recorded two years ago. Obviously, I'm very efficient getting that to you. So I actually have had several questions. So are you ready? Morgan, I'll ask you a question. You can ask me a question. This is from James. He says, because a college degree required an any age health or background restrictions or requirements. And how do you get a job? Do you have to know somebody? That's a really good question. He says he's burnout. He's in his late 40s or the 50s burnout in his career. Do you think? Do we need a college degree? We do not need a college degree. It's one of the beautiful things about this batch. There is an age requirement, but it's 23. So you're good there. And the background restrictions. Now you just have to be able to read right and speak English. That is pretty simple. Pretty simple. And I guess it helps if you know somebody in the industry. Yes. But not necessarily. No. Morgan and I had none of that. We still got them. So if you watch this video and see the two of us can get real jobs dispatching, anybody can absolutely. And I mean that in a good way. Yes. All right. Next question. How is the salary scale? Entry level. I think my first year of dispatching, full year I made, somewhere 35, $40,000. Right? I think that's the best way to get a job. I think that's the best way to get a job. I mean, somewhere 35, $40,000. Right around there. And that's working for a regional airline. However, if you can make it to one of the, and this is speaking for the US, of course. I can't speak, we can't speak for Canada or anywhere else. You can make probably starting out like a American or Southwest, what, like 60, 60, 70. And then it just goes up from there. I love what I do. Do you love what you do? I do. Yeah. So it just depends where you work. Regionals are going to pay less than main line, but that kind of gives you an idea. Yeah. Point there, counterpoint. Make sure you fly because we'll get a raise then. So, and when she helps out, help us out. They said, and it's not just us. It's flight attendance. It's pilot, everybody. It's never been safe for our, I would add. And totally different subject. It's never been safe for the flight. Yeah. I know. But even with having a wear of masks and everything, which we actually have to do work, there's never been in better time. It's never been cheaper to travel. Alright, next question. Is there an age cutoff? There is not. That's another one of the beautiful things about this fan. Yeah. You can keep going to work, as long as you can get up and go to work. There's no, no retiringing. That's true. There is no age cutoff. The unlike pilots, who have a cutoff, I don't know what is it. Six, six, five. And then I think it did get raised by a couple of years. And of course pilots who are watching, you can now be saying answer that question better than us. But yeah, there's no age requirement in mornings right. Our next question. How long is the training for flight this fan? Oh, good question. Good question. Yeah. When I went to give you a little background, this was not on my radar. I had tried to get into the Air Force to be a pilot and they didn't want me because it was my friends that just flight this batch. I actually went to a school here in Dallas, especially school, maybe in a college trade school for flight dispatching. The federal requirement is about 200 hours of classroom time. It's really the key component. You have to pass an oral and a written exam as well. But that's really all it is. So I would save 200 hours in the oral and written exam. My school cost about $5,000. And I had went to the attainable school with a college pilot, a degree for this fan, so it could look longer, but it's not required. Right. You just have to get the license. But you also know a lot more. Maybe. What is it? The next question. How much math is there involved? That's a good question. It's fairly minimal. It's not a lot of math involved if you're uncomfortable with math. I would say, I guess you could do some quick math to do altitude deviations or for temperature variations based on the altitude, but it's all fairly simple. We work with iPads and we, it'll help you in landing distances and all kinds of calculations. And there's also a bunch of charts that you can follow. Next question. I'm a pilot and I have my commercial certificate at the planning because of flight descent. Do you think the knowledge that I have from a pilot certificate will help me to take a flight descent? Absolutely. Absolutely. A lot of the information is the same and all those hand in hand. Yep. We're kind of like the pilots on the ground as dispancers so that'll definitely transition very well into the business. You have an advantage, I think, because a lot of the stuff you know in dealing with charts, like Morgan said, weather and also ATC components. You know that. You're aware of that. That definitely will help you get a leg up. And I know there are several actually pilots who are dispatched. I would like to ask about the future of this job. What do you think the future of being a dispatcher with the advanced men of technology and some kind of software? Do you think there will still be a need for a dispatcher on the ground? That's a fantastic question and a difficult one. I hope there's still a need for a dispatcher on the ground and I think that they will probably still want to have some kind of human interaction involved because you never know if technology thinks coming to stake and we are responsible for people's lives. So I would hope that there is still a need for us in the future but I do think that the advanced men of technology and software will just be there to help us make our decisions. Anything will run a little smoother. When you look at technology, it can only help us but it cannot. It can replace the human interaction of a pilot and your quick thinking skills like for example an emergency. I don't know if they will ever get to the point where it happens all the time. You can have a tap for an airport that says it's supposed to be clear and beautiful and you look at the radar and you can see whether moving in and it's reporting nothing. I don't know if they will ever get a software that will be able to interpret what's not being reported in the forecast that's showing on your radar and be able to make those decisions. So I think they will always be a need for a dispatcher on that. My last question. What is your advice for someone who doesn't have a aviation background but wants to become a flight dismal? Well, for example, I had zero knowledge. Other than playing flight simulator. By the way, a little blood for flight simulator. Feel free to line my pockets. Coming out August 18th, you're welcome. So yes. Yes, but as you don't need any kind of aviation background, I had none. I happened to just stumble into the field originally and I actually heard about ATC. It was interesting and man, when I went to talk to the advisor at the school, he suggested I look into this bench as well. So I did a double with ATC in this bench and the more and more I learned about this bench, the more excited I became about it and hit the ground running and I never looked back. I actually was working at Chick-fil-A because a couple months before I took the LSAT, Bombat, took the GRE, did well on that. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. So yeah, I had zero experience. In fact, flight simulator was my only training and I... Other than that, I got interested in flight dispatching. My captain friend said, go check it out. And yeah, three years, three complete. It's three years later. I'm a flight. Yeah, and here we are. Official dispatchers. And doing all right. We work all shifts 24 hours a day. There's always somebody in the office. So we are kind of the captain's partner on the ground. We keep track of them once they're around. We help them coordinate if there's an emergency or if they need to declare an emergency or a visitation. Who's sick on the plane, watching the weather, watching the fuel, standing contact with ATC if they have any kind of program or initiative going on for high volume or rather closures. ATC, the captain and the dispatcher, they all kind of work together to make sure that you get to your destination safely. And quickly and efficiently and safely and safely. So Morgan, thanks for joining me this week. Thanks for having me. It was a pleasure. It's been two years. Hopefully we'll make more videos. In the meantime, if nothing else... I don't know. Oh, we're out.