---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 65.55"
title: "14"
number: "65.55"
heading: "Knowledge requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/65.55"
---

# §65.55. Knowledge requirements.

- (a) A person who applies for an aircraft dispatcher certificate must pass a knowledge test on the following aeronautical knowledge areas:
  - (1) Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations of this chapter that relate to airline transport pilot privileges, limitations, and flight operations;
  - (2) Meteorology, including knowledge of and effects of fronts, frontal characteristics, cloud formations, icing, and upper-air data;
  - (3) General system of weather and NOTAM collection, dissemination, interpretation, and use;
  - (4) Interpretation and use of weather charts, maps, forecasts, sequence reports, abbreviations, and symbols;
  - (5) National Weather Service functions as they pertain to operations in the National Airspace System;
  - (6) Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and avoidance;
  - (7) Principles of air navigation under instrument meteorological conditions in the National Airspace System;
  - (8) Air traffic control procedures and pilot responsibilities as they relate to enroute operations, terminal area and radar operations, and instrument departure and approach procedures;
  - (9) Aircraft loading, weight and balance, use of charts, graphs, tables, formulas, and computations, and their effect on aircraft performance;
  - (10) Aerodynamics relating to an aircraft's flight characteristics and performance in normal and abnormal flight regimes;
  - (11) Human factors;
  - (12) Aeronautical decision making and judgment; and
  - (13) **Crew resource management, including crew communication and coordination.**
- (b) Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, the applicant must present documentary evidence satisfactory to the Administrator of having passed an aircraft dispatcher knowledge test within the preceding 24 calendar months.
- (c) An applicant is eligible to take a practical test for an aircraft dispatcher certificate under this part with an expired written test report in accordance with [§ 61.40](/cfr/14/61.40.md) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2023-0825, Amdt. 65-65, 89 FR 80053, Oct. 1, 2024]

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-1998-4553, 64 FR 68923, Dec. 8, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709-44711, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 1179, 27 FR 7973, Aug. 10, 1962, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2023-0825, Amdt. 65-65, 89 FR 80053, Oct. 1, 2024]