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terminal construction, they no longer had visibility of the runway. Working with the county airport authority, they went to another location that allowed for full visibility of the runway. Several issues were identified that will have to be addressed to be able to work traffic from the new location, and Tech Ops has agreed to help address them. AJR-X will continue to work directly with FLL until they are able to complete the revisions to their OCP. AUTOMATED TERMINAL PROXIMITY ALERT (ATPA) Mike Sanders (SCT) is the Article 114 Rep for ATPA. His report is below: I participated in several telcons involving future enhancement to ATPA. The first will involve ATPA processing distance on ghost using CRDA and/or in the near future, Merging Display Aid (MDA). The second enhancement will enable ATPA processing for single runway curved approaches. Both are works in progress and a timeline is TBD. ATPA will soon process formation flights. This should be available in the S6 R10 build that will be tested in November/December. ATPA is voluntary on the part of the individual controller at his/her display. Facilities are not permitted to make any portion of ATPA mandatory. If you have any questions on training or adaptation, please contact me below. Mike Sanders, SoCal TRACON, National ATPA Lead, laxapproach@icloud.com or atpa@natca.net, 913-904-6937. DATACOMM Ray Berndt (ZJX) is the Article 114 Rep for DataComm. His report is below: En route CPDLC operations are resuming this week for operators that subscribe to ARINC after an Aug. 30 mitigation proved successful in eliminating the ground station issue that caused the delay to some uplinks sent by controllers. Keysites ZID and ZKC are expected to see an increase in aircraft participating in En route CPDLC. Additional improvements to the network and avionics are being tracked through the end of summer and into the fall. ERAM EAE210 release, along with DataComm network changes, will eliminate the vast majority of controller uplinks delayed by delivery over slower media connections. The network and ERAM changes will ensure that the network only transmit uplinks from controllers over the faster VDL Mode 2 connection. DataComm is now able to analyze the impact of these improvements after the EAE210 release was installed at ZTL on Sept. 20. Further improvements to the network and ERAM are on track for later this year. Updates contained in ERAM release EAE300 and EAE310 will provide controllers more useful information when a CPDLC uplink experiences a failure within the network or is rejected by the avionics. ERAM will provide controllers better feedback from the network

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• SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
• RUNWAY SAFETY
• Bridget Singratanakul (Gee) (DFW) is NATCA's Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) Rep. She also serves as the Article 114 Rep to the Runway Status Lights (RWSL) Program. Her report is below:
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• o Phase 2 - Lighting computer replaced. JAI was scheduled for August 2018, and ORD for September 2019.
• o Phase 4 - Planned IOC date was June 2019. All testing checked out well, however there was still more construction work being completed on the airfield. The system is online, but the additional arrays were not available until June.