A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/1217493
• Inhibit function for coordination. o Inhibit function to be removed except manually by the controller. o Inhibit function to prevent external message transmission for automatic coordination. • Current inhibit (handoff) function is for inhibiting handoff and transfer of communications. 58339 FP from Honolulu rejected due to stuck flight plan. • Problem Description: o FP was received from HNL and rejected (DR) by ATOP due to flight plan in ActiveNext from the previous day. After the aircraft exited the ATOP FIR, flight crew logged back on to ask for frequency. Controller inhibited handoff and assumed control in order to uplink frequency. After re- enabling handoff, flight moves to ActiveNext again, but CPDLC connection is not terminated automatically, preventing flight from being removed. o The CPDLC End Of Service timer was not rescheduled after re-enabling handoff because the a/c had already entered downstream facility. The flight can remain ActiveNext for long periods of time without AT awareness. HUMAN PERFORMANCE Aaron Katz (P50) is the Article 114 Rep for Human Performance. Safety Culture - The out brief was delivered on Thursday, Jan. 9. PDX and P80 will be briefed on the safety culture findings that was done between August and September 2019. CHI Team Training - The CHI team asked us if we could provide them some basic HF training. The class was scheduled for the week of Jan. 28 in Washington, D.C. Training Effectiveness Survey - All dates have been coordinated. Data collection will be completed by February. Remaining sites include SCT, PCT, ZHU, and C90. Behavioral Markers - All interviews have been completed. The recoded interviews are being transcribed and analyzed by NASA. Due to time constraints with other projects, NASA feels it will take until April 2020 to have the full report furnished to the HP team. Visual Scanning - All site visits are now complete, and CAMI will begin to process the research. The next step should be taking their findings and see if we can develop some effective training from the results. HP Taxonomy - All work has been completed and we have briefed joint sponsors Steve Hansen and Tony Schneider. Mr. Schneider is leaving his position and Mr. Hansen will determine the next steps forward with his new counterpart.