A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT April 1, 2019 Update AIR TRAFFIC PROCEDURES (AJV-8) Andy Marosvari (BOI) is the Article 114 Representative in the AJV-8 Office. His report is below: In last week's AJV-8 Procedures update, I included information regarding an interpretation AJV-8 was issuing for Parallel Runway Ops, 30-degree intercept, and Visual Separation. I was subsequently advised that Aviation Oversight (AOV) within the FAA has not concurred with AJV-8's guidance to the service areas and the guidance was never distributed. Please disregard the information in the update and I will provide more information when it becomes available. 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 is below: The CO group is still trying to recover from the government shutdown. The group manager and director met with the VPs and briefed them on the progress of the CO group. In the meeting, the group decided to change the current waterfall of facilities that the CO group would prioritize. Previously the group was focused on ZNY and had already visited the facility and had begun work on coordinating with all of the support facilities who would be taking over divested airspace during an outage at ZNY. This work has now been shelved and the group is awaiting a new waterfall schedule to begin working on developing new OCPs for those facilities. Grider traveled with members of the CO group to ZLA to work on how ZLA and NCT can support ZOA if they go ATC-0. The meeting was productive and provided the support facilities with new ideas on how they can provide support for ZOA. Grider was informed this month that his counterpart will be moving on and that his replacement will be Rob Pipkin from ZAU. Grider will be working closely with Pipkin to bring him up to speed with what the group has been working on and what he should expect in the future. DATACOMM Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 114 Representative for DataComm. His report is below: Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) sites are now sending over 56,000 clearances a week at Tower Data Link Services (TDLS) sites. ATL has now passed LAX as the most CPDLC clearances sent in a week. The top five airports are KATL with 3,193; KLAX with 2,844; KLAS with 2,052; KJFK with 1,970; and KPHX with 1,900 clearances.