Originally Posted by
tangey
Your suggestion that the despatcher may be at fault implies that there is a cross check system, and that there was a mess up this time in inplementing it. Your earlier reply suggested that there is no cross-check, that the plane/pilots plan and the ground crews plan are in isolation.
No. Despatcher that I am referring to is the person at WDL Ops that generates the flight plan based on loads and winds and files it. Not the gate agent who is also sometimes referred to as the dispatcdispatcher.
I'm speculating as much as anyone, with the addition of my knowledge of flight plan filing based in being a private pilot who has completed and filed flight plans. Those systems are run by ATC which is why my supposition that there's no connection. You can try poke holes in my speculation but since that's all it is it gets us nowhere nearer the truth