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March 11, 2019 Update AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV-7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative to the AJV-7 Office. His report is below: All timelines for work assigned to AJV-7 that had to be completed in the first quarter have all been pushed to second quarter. • STARS E2 – We received a briefing from project lead that the shutdown had little effect on this project. A play date is projected for sometime in spring to early summer. • Facility visits to ZDC, PCT, and the command center to learn how TFMS is used are scheduled for the week of March 18. • WX on the glass – AJT, AJV-7, and NATCA have meet three times to work on wording for an ONA on WX on the glass. We want to ensure that the scope will include, but is not limited to: other sources of WX other than ASR, WX displayed to be same or as close as possible what pilot is seeing, define WX on the glass does include more than precipitation. Jeff Woods and I are working together on this subject. • Airport Runway Verification – A meeting is scheduled at Raytheon June 3-7 to look at CHI. I have also informed our runway safety rep (Bridget Singratanakul) of these dates so she can attend. • The CHI team was asked to review a proposal of adding a strip notification in block 8 for aircraft that can receive TDLS or CPDLS. The CHI team along with the TFDM Article 114 Rep decided it was not needed because TFDM already provides for a notification, and facilities that will not receive TFDM have SOPs covering the issue. We will have a call agt a future date to discuss this. • STARS colors – A request to have more colors available to STARS was made by TSAS. We are researching to ensure Human Factors took into account those on waivers for color blindness when they approved a 10-color palette. Once we verify this, AJV-8 will need to amend the 7210.3 to allow usage. The CHI team will begin work on it after the change is made. ATO OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY GROUP (ATOC) Jason Grider (ZFW) is the Article 114 Representative for NATCA. Also, included in Grider's duties is Article 114 representation for the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). His report below: The two groups were not operational during the government shutdown. The past month they have been reorganizing their efforts to assist facilities in building better operational contingency plans (OCP). There were several setbacks caused by the shutdown. The group was scheduled to travel to ANC and ZOA to finish work on their oceanic contingency plans. This trip has been rescheduled for May. Grider has also been working closely with the AJR-X group to help identify route structures for ZOA domestic airspace divestiture during an ATC-0 event. There has been no further progress on the development of training for controllers who would be asked to work airspace they are not certified on during the implementation of an OCP. Grider is pushing to get this completed so as to ensure safe operations if an OCP ever has to be used.