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Dispatcher reports being unable to maintain operational control of her flights after being assigned another sector on a night shift; due to too many flights.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1218326 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201411 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Dispatcher |
| Qualification | Dispatch Dispatcher |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
I was working desk X. At XA00 local time this desk takes sector Y. I took the turnover and was completely saturated with flights. I had 20 flights in the air and my dispatch screen had 28 flights at the top. I had to keep my worksheet on the bottom line. Then I had to scroll to the maximum to see all of my flights. My operational control was gone. I had too many flights to manage. There was rain and icing conditions along the east coast. I had a bunch of transcon flights enroute.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Dispatcher reports being unable to maintain operational control of her flights after being assigned another sector on a night shift; due to too many flights.
Narrative: I was working desk X. At XA00 local time this desk takes sector Y. I took the turnover and was completely saturated with flights. I had 20 flights in the air and my dispatch screen had 28 flights at the top. I had to keep my worksheet on the bottom line. Then I had to scroll to the maximum to see all of my flights. My operational control was gone. I had too many flights to manage. There was rain and icing conditions along the east coast. I had a bunch of transcon flights enroute.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.