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NATCA FUTURE NATIONAL EVENTS: SAVE THE DATE
NATCA in Washington 2019: May 20-22, 2019
Communicating For Safety 2019: Sept. 16-18, 2019, Bally's Las Vegas
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Biennial Convention, 2020: May 27-29, 2020, Houston
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FAA ATO COO TERI BRISTOL'S WEEKLY UPDATE FOR ATO EMPLOYEES
Oct. 12, 2018
Transformation Is on Its Way with TBO
Hi everyone,
When I was in college, I took courses in a wide variety of subjects – marketing, economics,
statistics, and science, to name a few. I didn't realize until I was an adult in the workforce that
what had initially seemed to be isolated pockets of knowledge really ended up working
together to become much more valuable to me as a whole.
This is true of the NextGen improvements we have made to our national airspace system too.
We have done a terrific job of upgrading the automation, navigation, surveillance, and
communication systems in our national airspace, which by themselves, add value.
But the real transformation is still to come as all of these changes work together to allow us to
build capabilities that translate into a full trajectory-based operation (TBO).
TBO is our way of strategically planning, managing and optimizing flights throughout the
operation. Aircraft will use time, rather than less efficient miles in trail, and leverage the
aircraft's ability to fly more precise flight paths, increasing predictability, flexibility and
throughput, as we combine Time Based Management and Performance Based Navigation.
