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To date, the Professional Standards program has received 2,838 submissions with 90% of those being resolved. That's 2,558 issues that NATCA was able to resolve at the lowest level, peer to peer, without management involvement in the outcome. Approximately 70% of those cases are submitted by management, demonstrating the FAA's belief that the peer to peer method used by the program is working. The recidivism rate is very low, indicating that the one on one discussions between committee members and controllers has a long-lasting, positive effect on the safety of the system and the professionalism of our controllers. We now have an active PS tab on the NATCA website. It covers information for FacReps, members, and PS members, with contact information for all active Professional Standards Committee member and District chairpersons. We also have a link to email us directly — please take a moment and check it out! If you have any questions about the Professional Standards Program, please don't hesitate to contact any of the NATCA National Professional Standards committee members at ps@natca.net. RNAV AND PERFORMANCE BASED NAVIGATION (PBN) Bennie Hutto (PCT) is the Article 114 Representative for RNAV and PBN criteria work. His report is below: The Departure Criteria Working Group (DWG) discussed the following information during our recent meeting: • Climb Gradient on SIDs: The sub-group recommendation is to accept the AFM-IPG issue as part of the overall SID criteria issue and work in the DWG. The recommendations provided by the AFM-IPG were not accepted at this time based on operational issues. • 8260.3 Draft: Comments from the draft were discussed, and an updated draft will be sent to DWG participants, and a meeting with industry will be set up for November. • Length of SIDs/Transitions (MEAs on transitions): The sub-group reversed its decision to remove MEAs based on NATCA/ATC comments that transitions are used today to replace/supplement the en route environment. Draft criteria will allow current SID en route transitions, provided the full en route criteria are followed, including Minimum Crossing Altitude (MCA) evaluations and RNAV 2 Nav Spec. MEAs/MOCAs will be required on en route transitions and must meet the definition of criteria and not be raised to support ATC operations. • Changes to JO 7100.41: The appropriate Line of Business (LOB) are engaged in the changes to JO 7100.41, and the sub-group agreed to close this item. • 16-DWG-016 – Low Close-in Obstacle issue: The DWG discussed the AJV proposal and had some concerns regarding not publishing all of the obstacles. No LOB agreed to fund and manage proposed changes by the Flight Operations Group. AFS-420 will evaluate to see if survey or grouping changes could help resolve the issue. AFS-420 will evaluate the need to list the low, close-in obstacles in the front of the Terminal Procedures

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