A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/1006184
attempt is much more on the mark and will allow the sites the freedom of handling their own adaptation. The timeline for this, unfortunately, is somewhere around site 8 in 2020. Most of the TFDM Ops Team (NATCA, management, a nd retired controller contractors) met at the Tech Center the week of 06/11 - 14 for the 90 percent review of the TFDM Operations Manual. Over the three days the team made over 450 comments/discrepancies between the manu al and the state of the system. This process serves as an informal test of where the system is versus where we expect it to be once we move into f ormal testing early next year. This document, along with the Training Manuals still in development, will also help facilities Site prep at PHX b egan the week of July 9th with installation of the system t o be completed in late August. During this install, cables will be run to the cab and the monitors will be tested, but then r emoved. With PHX already having the prototype AEFS, there isn't enough r oom to have both Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) and TFDM monitors running side by side. There are options being looked at by the program to run AEFS on TFDM monitors with switches between systems occurring only during testing. If that option does n't work, it is likely that we will have to get a mounting system of some kind to accomplish the Operational Testing (OT) that will start in March or April of 2019. Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) Some of the Ops team was back at the Tech Cente r the week of 06/18 - 22 for risk mitigation testing of the newest AEFS build 5.5. Although we didn't find anything glaringly wrong with the system, we still have some concerns with the information we will be getting from NASA and ATD - 2 and how that informat ion w ill be displayed on the strips. There is an official lab test planned for July 31 and August 1, with s uitabili ty testing the following week. Site testing at CLT will occur the week of August 27 - 31, with the hopes of leaving the new build running upon completion of the testing. The trip of LAS personne l to CLT to observe AEFS and it s capabilities was put on hold due to a la st minute scheduling conflict. A follow - on trip has yet to be scheduled. CLT Site testing for the new build will occur last week of August. Build 5.5 is almost entirely comprised of enhancements for CLT and the integration with ATD - 2, so it is imperative that the systems work seamlessly in order to have the best chance of success. PHX Nothing new CLE Not hing new LAS Nothing new SFO Nothing new