繁體中文
同機長共同負責
飛行簽派員唔係機長嘅助手，而係同機長共同負責飛行計劃嘅一方。佢要綜合天氣預報同實況、航路、機型同載重去計算所需燃油，同決定起飛、降落嘅重量限制；航班一旦遇上天氣轉壞或其他變數，就要即時改道或調整，並由起飛到降落全程監察航班狀況，同機長同空中交通管制人員保持溝通。呢啲工作喺航空公司嘅運作中心進行，一個團隊往往同時處理幾個航班，交更時亦要把未完成嘅事項清楚交接。
入行關卡同訓練
香港冇法定簽派員牌照，入行關卡係航空公司自己嘅訓練同考核。職業資料庫一般列出中五／香港中學文憑程度，最好有一至兩年航空公司經驗同良好英語會話能力；實際多數由航班運作、載重控制或航班協調等崗位轉職，再接受公司簽派訓練，通過考核先獨立值班。因為簽派決定同時影響安全同成本，訓練內容涵蓋飛機系統、氣象、導航同公司程序，最後以筆試同實務考核作結。
班次、系統同壓力
航班廿四小時運作，簽派員要輪班，颱風同突發情況會迫住喺短時間內重新規劃，壓力集中喺做決定嘅一刻。日常要靠飛行計劃同監察系統，所以電腦操作同英文閱讀能力都重要。航空公司喺《1995年空運（香港）令》下要持空運牌照（AOC）先經營公共運輸航班，運作手冊同人手編制受規管，簽派崗位設喺獲認可嘅運作體系內。
English
Shared responsibility with the captain
A dispatcher is not the captain's assistant but a party that shares responsibility for the flight plan. The dispatcher combines forecasts and observations, the route, aircraft type and payload to calculate the fuel required and set the take-off and landing weight limits, reroutes or adjusts when weather or other factors change, and monitors the flight from departure to landing while staying in contact with the captain and air traffic control. The work sits in the airline's operations control centre, where a team may handle several flights at once and where unfinished items must be handed over clearly at shift changes.
Entry route and training
Hong Kong has no statutory dispatcher licence, so the barrier is the airline's own training and assessment. The occupation dictionary generally lists Secondary 5 / HKDSE, ideally one to two years of airline experience and good spoken English; in practice recruits usually move from flight operations, load control or flight co-ordination and then take the airline's dispatch course, and only work a desk alone after passing the assessment. Because dispatch decisions affect both safety and cost, training covers aircraft systems, meteorology, navigation and airline procedures and ends with written and practical examinations.
Shifts, systems and pressure
Flights run around the clock, so dispatchers work shifts, and typhoons or disruption force quick re-planning with the pressure concentrated in the moment of decision. The daily tools are flight-planning and monitoring systems, so computer literacy and reading English matter. Under the Air Navigation (Hong Kong) Order 1995 an operator needs an Air Operator's Certificate before flying public transport services, and its operations manual and staffing are regulated, so dispatch posts normally sit inside an approved operation. Dispatchers therefore work to the operator's approved procedures rather than personal preferences.
