Commercial Fixed Wing
Dispatch Dispatcher
Workload
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Equipment / Tooling; Company Policy; Human Factors
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.
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.