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• ER 186070 Weather Updates: The ER describes a situation where the weather report for a specific station did not yet update the old weather remained displayed. A draft problem statement will be created and discussed during the next telcon, with a desired behavior of reporting weather observations as missing. Without this fix, old weather shows as current every 24 hours based on the time of the old WX report. • PDRR/ABRR: Critical AIMS 196440 was written against PDRR and a software fix is needed to correct the issue. The ERAM fix will be delivered in April of 2019 and the TFMS fix in 2020 or later. The initial discussions are to disable PDRR at the facility level until the fixes are deployed. FLIGHT DATA INPUT OUTPUT (FDIO) Corey Soignet (LFT) is the FDIO Article 114 Representative and the Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System (EFSTS) Representative. His report is below: All of the FDIO printers installed in key sites are running with no major issues. BOCA has begun the production of the printers and once getting up to full speed will produce a minimum of 500 printers a month. The FDIO Printer team is still on track to begin shipping out the new printers to facilities in first quarter of 2019. Regarding EFTS and FIDI, there is nothing to update at this time. INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS-R) Richie Smith (N90) leads NATCA's efforts on the IDS-R project as the Article 114 Representative. His report is below: After a dismal failed attempt at upgrading the SCT network to software version 3.6.4 a new key site has been chosen (PHL) and coordination's are underway to pick a date for the installation. PHL was chosen because of its location relative to the Technical Center in Atlantic City so that additional hands-on support can be brought in quickly. The reason for the failure at SCT is that there were extra, undocumented, workstations present in the network that caused a fracturing of the network post installation. When and why these extra workstations were introduced into the network is still under investigation. Another issue that arose in SCT is that the facility has removed a lot if not all of the legacy equipment (DASI, RVR, LLWAS, clocks, etc.) citing NIDS as the primary source of this information. Because of the failure and subsequent fallback, controllers had no real time information to issue to pilots for hours. This is an unacceptable situation for controllers and pilots to be in. NATCA is focusing on two additional networks that have been awaiting resolutions of issues for unacceptable amounts of time. MSY/NEW have had touch screen monitor issues since the installation of NIDS, and TUS/U90 has been waiting for a fix for weather alert/alarm acknowledgements for well over a year. If anyone has questions or concerns about their NIDS system please contact Richie Smith at idsr@natca.net.

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