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simulation runs, done by our industry partners, and will go for noise modeling in the next few weeks. The next step will be to brief each airport on the noise simulations and any design concerns uncovered during the simulation runs. The KORD draft procedures are in final development for submission to the modeling activities for Chicago. There are a number of pressures on the production pipeline and many orders that mandate how instrument flight procedure work is approved, completed, and implemented. NATCA has been working (for nearly two years) with Operational Support Group (OSG), PBN Program Office, Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), and Flight Standards (AFS) on a singular Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) process that could bring all procedure development into one consistent process and move forward in supporting national level priorities and strategies. NATCA's vision for these changes ensure facility collaboration and eliminate changes to the NAS that aren't appropriately coordinated in the field. These efforts have been abandoned by AIS and AFS. AFS and AIS are ready to implement a new 8260.43C that doesn't have the appropriate infrastructure and planning in place to simplify the process, reduce timelines for publication, or ensure complete air traffic facility collaboration. The current version being implemented does not match earlier drafts that were collaborated on. There has been considerable work going into preparations for a singular IFP process. The new 8260.43C mandates how projects are approved and scheduled. Because the new .43C is completely changing how potential projects are approved, work on the new IFP process has had to stop and change its focus to adapting to the new .43C. If given the appropriate time and development, both the new IFP process and the new Prioritization Process could co-exist and complement each other. Flight Check (FC) has run into large scale scheduling problems because of required airframe maintenance and FAA pilot shortages. The Flight Procedures Team (FPT) has already started pulling projects out of the November 2018 Chart Cycle, and every other chart cycle currently scheduled, to reduce the workload down to numbers that FC can accomplish. This publication reduction will impact mitigations to VOR MON navaids and many other projects scheduled through at least the end of 2019. The effort to help ARTCCs focus on their VOR MON mitigations is underway and evolving into a standard method that can be applied to any navaid removal and mitigation conversation. Next week, Central PBN will be at ZKC with our FPT, OSG Airspace & Procedure Specialists, and Environmental Specialists. The ZKC agenda is focused on VOR MON mitigations for ZKC and other underlying/adjacent facilities. We will work the ZKC request for T-routes, discuss early concepts for STARs into KMCI brought about by VOR MON, and evaluate, with the facility, all PBN and conventional procedures tied to the next wave of VORs being taken out. We are currently reaching out to the remaining CSA ARTCCs for meeting dates in the first and second calendar quarters of 2019. These activities need to remain a priority for us and getting them on the schedule helps us keep these activities from being over-run by other competing PBN requests. The immediate goal for the next six months is to have packages submitted for

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