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We continued to establish contact with FacReps from other facilities to better educate and prepare them for upcoming briefings and exercises, and to answer any questions they may have. We are also continuing to socialize, through contact with FacReps from other facilities, gaining more Real Time Knowledge of events in which TANR was used. Update for the Week of Nov. 12, 2018 AIR TRAFFIC PROCEDURES (AJV-8) Andy Marosvari (BOI) is the Article 114 Representative in the AJV-8 Office. His report is below: Safety Risk Management Panels OJTI Requirements for Section 804 Facility Realignments – I participated on a follow-up panel for OJTI Requirements for Section 804 Facility Realignments. When facilities are combined during the 804 process, all current CPCs become CPC-ITs, and as written, current guidance in the 7210.3 requires certified OJTIs to work a minimum of 60 hours on the new facility's sectors prior to administering OJTI. When lower level facilities combine with higher level facilities and a minimum number of controllers from the lower level facility transfer, the hours of work experience required causes a delay in training. A group of Subject Matter Experts met and determined that there was no hazard in lowering the required hours of experience to no less than 20 for experienced, previously certified OJTIs. This would apply only to those certified OJTIs from the higher-level facility on the lower level facility sectors. The change evaluated in this panel will help the training process as more facilities are combined through the 804 process. 4-7-1 Clearance Information Runway Transition Assignment and Changes Update – Andrew Duda (AJV-8) gave an update based on the FAA 7110.65, Section 4-7-1 Document Change Proposal from the Safety Risk Management Panel (SRMP), where a change in requirements and phraseology was allowing controllers to issue runway changes if required without having to provide radar vectors, provided the lateral and vertical path of the runway transition was identical. Although industry provided the requirements during the SRMP on what they could accept, and this change incorporated those changes, it was met with opposition by Gary McMullin of SWA even though he had participated in the simulator exercises for this change. He requested that a study be accomplished using line pilots to gain a better understanding of the impacts. He believes if continued as written, it will have a major impact on pilots as well as the potential to create problems within the NAS. AJV-8 wanted to continue with sending the DCP out to the field for comments, then look at whether or not a study would be required. 7-4-4, Approaches to Multiple Runways I have worked with several facilities on clarifications to the 30-degree intercept rule used for visual and instrument approaches to parallel runways 2,500 feet to less than 4,300 feet apart. The rule also applies to those airports with runways 4,300 feet or more apart but in s slightly modified manner. There is a Document Change Proposal (DCP) in process to help make this

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