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NextGen Now | Summer 2015
Pressley has been traveling to facilities in the Chicago
and northern California areas to work with controllers on
the implementation of Wake RECAT. Pressley has also
traveled to facilities that are not implementing RECAT,
to brief those controllers on what will change for them
when a nearby facility starts using RECAT procedures.
For example, Chicago TRACON controllers will soon be
using Wake RECAT, but not all the airport towers within
the TRACON's airspace will use RECAT.
Pressley recently attended Wakenet USA in downtown
Chicago and Wakenet Europe. In both meetings, Pressley
and other representatives on the Wake RECAT team
updated the users, manufacturers, and think tanks on
the accomplishments in the world of wake turbulence,
and what the future holds.
"Except for the implementation of time-based wake
mitigation at Heathrow, the United States is still the only
country that is implementing wake mitigations," says
Pressley.
