91.Dispatcher

Dispatch brief

Somebody looks at the flight before you go.

An airline captain does not sign for a flight alone — a dispatcher works it with them, and both have to agree. Part 91 gives you nobody. This is the second look: the weather, the fuel, the alternates and the approaches, read against your own limits rather than against nothing in particular.

What you get back

A complete preflight picture, assembled in seconds.

Route weather at every waypoint. Approach capability at the destination and at each alternate, checked against what the aeroplane and the pilot can actually fly. Fuel from departure to alternate with your reserve intact. And a plain-language summary of what to watch and when to reconsider — a recommendation, not a decision. You remain pilot in command, and the brief is written on the assumption that you will argue with it.

Hazards & Weather
Zero ToleranceIcingPIREPs on route
No-GoCeiling800 ft AGL
ThresholdWinds22 kt total
ThresholdFuel reserve1.2 hrs

Your minimums

Your rules. Checked against every trip.

Personal minimums only work if something applies them on the day you least want them applied. Set them once — zero tolerance for known icing, circling in MVFR or better, stable by 400 ft — and every brief is judged against yours, not against a generic template. Nothing here is an FAA minimum and nothing here substitutes for one; these are the limits you have decided you fly to.

Personal minimums
Zero ToleranceConvective activity50 mi buffer
No-GoActive SIGMETRoute of flight
ThresholdDeparture ceiling1,000 ft AGL
ThresholdStable approach400 ft AGL

Aircraft & currency

Brief the aeroplane you're actually in, on the currency you actually have.

A 172 with a GTN 750 and an autopilot is not the same aeroplane as the club's steam-gauge trainer, and a pilot six approaches into the last ninety days is not the same pilot as one who is two. Both feed the brief. Import your logbook once from any EFB and currency stops being something you work out on your fingers the night before.

What the brief already knows
ThresholdAvionicsGTN 750 · GFC 500
ThresholdCruise TAS122 kts
ThresholdIFR approaches (90d)6 required
ThresholdHours in type147 hrs

What it isn't

It is a second opinion, not a signature.

Nothing here clears you for anything, satisfies a regulation, or takes a decision off your hands — a Part 91 flight is the pilot in command's, start to finish, and it stays that way. What a brief does is make sure the thing you decide is a thing you decided knowingly, with the awkward number in front of you rather than three taps down a menu you were not going to open at 0500.

Get started

Brief your next flight.

Set your minimums once. Every brief after that is checked against them.

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