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adjacent airspace so only the minimum count of T-route numbers was used. Additional review was done on the decom waterfall to ensure proper mitigations are in place. The team at ZKC did a great job identifying their needs and developing an ongoing plan to stay ahead of the program. Central PBN was recently with ZFW, D10, our FPT, and the OSG Airspace and Procedure Specialist. The ZFW agenda focused on VOR MON mitigations for the JEN VORTAC decom in 2020. Everyone involved did an excellent job understanding the problems being solved and reasoning through viable solutions. Kudos to ZFW, D10, and the staff from PBN, OSG, and FPT. Additional meetings are being scheduled for 2019 to continue working through their impacted navaids, procedures, and airways. We are currently reaching out to the remaining Central Service Area 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 now 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 each ARTCC that cover all VOR MON impacts anticipated through Phase I of VOR MON (FY2021). PBN/Metroplex Design and Implementation – Florida Metroplex re-design work has begun on the Florida Metroplex SIDs / STARs. The current Florida Metroplex re-scoping will incorporate Q and Y routes from ZJX, ZSU, and ZMA. The Florida Metroplex team connected the Q routes to the existing SIDs and STARs during a Nov. 8, 2018 implementation. The team will then reconnect the future Metroplex SIDs and STARs to the Q routes at a later date. The northern Q routes (ZDC and north) have been incorporated into the NEC initiative through the JO 7100.41 PBN process with a dedicated set of co-leads from the Eastern Service Center OSG PBN team. The Detroit/Cleveland Metroplex implemented SIDs and STARs on Sept. 13, 2018. The procedures are working very well and getting great reviews from Delta Air Lines. They have some post-implementation amendments to the SIDs and STARs slated for June and August 2019. The Denver Metroplex team continues their community involvement and engagement activities with March 2020 currently targeted for the implementation of the procedures. The Las Vegas Metroplex is now moving forward with the project as originally scoped with design work being mostly complete while also continuing to work on community involvement activities. The Las Vegas Metroplex team successfully completed the scrub of their HITL scenarios and full HITL activities the week of Nov. 13. The Metroplex leads meeting scheduled to take place in Cleveland on Aug. 6-10, 2018, was cancelled and has been rescheduled for Jan. 23-24, 2019 in Miami. PBN Policy and Support (AJV-14) is currently working with Flight Standards (AFS), Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), Service Center Operational Support Groups (OSGs), Flight Inspection, and PASS on a workgroup to look at ways to streamline the IFP development processes to improve the way we validate incoming IFP requests. This workgroup will also look at ways to better prioritize valid requests that aligns better with safety needs and the PBN NAS Nav Strategy. This workgroup began on March 28, 2017, with a week-long meeting in Seattle. The timeline for completion of the draft

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• ERAW received a briefing from Second Level Engineering and the Program Office on the Alternate Display Path in support of R-side Tech Refresh. The goal is to allow the AIX processor to provide data to the glass in the event of an MDM failure due to th...
• SE2 Use Case Updates
• o 4th Line – The team reached agreement on the 4th Line use case referencing the ON/OFF switch functionality. Once all team members concur, the use case will be sent to SLE.
• o Airspace Transfer – The team discussed the changes to the use case and a section was added for the "Push" function. The team also decided that language should be added to capture review of national procedures.
• DataComm CHI
• o The uplink type for Speed and Route Generic Uplinks was discussed. A recommendation was made to modify the classification of the Confirm Speed (uM134) and Confirm Assigned Route uplinks from Temporary Generic Uplinks to Permanent Generic Uplinks. Th...
• ER 195554 AHI and Point Outs
• o The team reviewed and reached agreement on the problem statement, "The desired behavior is to add system functionality that will insert an AHI (Auto Handoff Inhibit) for an aircraft from the initiating sector to the receiving sector after the receiv...
• ER 194653 Pending Font and Brightness
• o The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement, "Its desired behavior is to change the button functions on the SAA Filter Menu so that both hot and pending airspaces can be changed independently."
• Altimeter CAR
• o The team discussed updating altimeters at a more frequent rate. A task team has been created to work the issue with SLE and respond to the CAR.
• ER 186070 Weather Updates
• o The ER describes a situation where the weather report for a specific station did not update and the old weather remained displayed. A draft problem statement will be created with a desired behavior of reporting weather observations as missing, if th...
• PDRR/ABRR
• o 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 2019, and the TFMS fix in 2020 or later. The initial suggestion is to disable PDRR at the facility level until t...