A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/1182646
NEC ZNY Offshore Y-route project was scheduled to publish on Oct. 10. We will implement 16 new Y-routes, amend an additional five Y-routes, one M-route, and one AR-route. These Y-routes are designed to simplify flight plan filing and route structure in the ZNY Offshore radar air space. The new routes will assist industry, ZMA, ZJX, ZBW, TJSJ, and ZNY with a simplified route structure. The NEC NTHNS and GLDMN project is a modification of the current RNAV SIDs to alleviate noise over Flushing, N.Y. The PBN team worked with industry to evaluate climb gradients to shorten the initial climb before turning to follow the Van WYKE Expressway on the initial departure segment. We are working with AFS to process waivers for an expected publication of March 26, 2020. P56 Project is to modify nine DCA RNAV SIDs to help industry avoid the restricted area off of Runway 1 at DCA. The new HOLTB is designed for validation purposes and will publish Jan. 30, 2020. As we work on the development of the other eight SIDs, the PBN team will take the opportunity to fix a safety issue with the current BOOCK SID, add connectivity to the new NEC ACR routes for ZDC, and modify six westbound SIDs per a DCA Noise RT request. On July 16, 2020, the team intends to cancel the BOOCK and HOLTB SIDs, publish the new AMEEE SID along with amending the eight additional DCA RNAV SIDs, the CONLE off of BWI and the JCOBY off of IAD. With the endorsement of the DCA Noise RT and concurrence from PCT TRACON, the six westbound SIDs will be amended to satisfy the RT if we can complete the environmental prior to Jan. 24, 2020. If the environmental can't be completed the RT's request will need to push to a later publication. DCA RT continues to evaluate procedures PCT purposed to help alleviate their noise concerns. Outside the previously discussed changes under the P56 project, there are no new designs or intention of moving forward with this project. The RT is now working with a third-party contractor to purpose new designs. At some point in the future, the PBN team will need to evaluate the new proposals. The Baltimore Noise RT is also working with a third-party contractor to purpose changes to our latest designs. The BWI RT appears to agree with our SID designs, but the third- party contractor may have purposed changes for the STARS and RNPs. We intend to move forward with our current designs, as they will address several safety concerns. We will evaluate their proposals if presented in a timely fashion. The IAD "Trips" project has been delayed because of the government shutdown and the priorities of DataComm and VORMON. This project was a high-level FAA Administrator priority to install simultaneous triple IRS operations at IAD. The project was about 80% complete at the time of the shutdown. With the competing priorities and ZDC staffing limitations, this project remains on hold. If it is decided to restart this project, another project would need to put on hold. The leading candidate would be the ZDC VORMON project.