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minimum is $1908.39 based on issuing NOTAMs, reviewing for prop osed obstacle in OE - AAA, amendments and periodic review (part of this is tree and vegetation growth and cell phone towers being put up). When added up this leads to an astronomical amount of money ($41 million/year not including flight check). There have been attempts to reduce costs and gain time by automating some stuff and reducing reliability on paper. · A group will be put together to try to come up with some ideas/criteria to determine if circling minimums should be removed or not. They want to remove virtually all circling minimums because of the effort to have all airports having vertically guided approaches through RNAV. NBAA has an issue with this. There are also multiple efforts looking at this and needs to be combined. Circling ap proaches are required for instrument rating, CFI II airplanes and sometimes ATP. Reasons to keep are equipment variation, direction of approach, allows landing where there is no approach, sometimes minimums are better than Straight Ins, etc. PBN NAS stra tegy projects 138 airports losing circling minimums by 2020. · NSPP - NEW Metroplex Procedures o SoCal adds 6 RNAV RNP LAX, 1 RNAV SID LGB and 1 RNAV STAR NTD prepared for 3/31/2016 cycle but will not publish until 5/26/2016 publication cycle. o SIDs/STARs/RNP: IAH moves 6 RNAV up - number SIDs from 10/15 to 12/10/2015 publication cycle. LGB adds 2 RNAV SIDs and 2 RNAV STARs, SMO 2 RNAV SIDs and SNA 2 RNPs, 1 RNAV SID and 1 T - route for 5/26/2016 publication cycle. LP/LPV – 211 Scheduled for 2016 . · PARC NAV RNP to ILS - This was a review of the briefing recommendations to the NAC on this subject. o Highlights are: § low temperature operations § as close to a 2 degree descent gradient as possible § 5NM final or shorter § at or below a speed of 210 at the beginning of the RF or TF turn. § Design the RF turn first and overlay the TF method if needed for traffic § Design the remaining TF legs angle of 60 degrees each (3) o The WG recommendations will be sent to the PARC SG in Septem ber for approval and then to the FAA. Formal draft criteria based on WG recommendations is in the draft 8260.58A. · RNAV Approach advertised on D - ATIS - This is considered a demonstration project that has come from a request from RTCA as a result of one of the obstacles to PBN use and will be kicked - off 10/19. There is a list of 6 airports that will be asked to participate in trying to increase PBN usage by advertising RNAV approaches on the ATIS whether it is by themselves or in addition to the I LS. o The intent is to not get into a lot of questions, so just advertising 1 and if the pilot can't do it he'll tell you is probably the way to go. The tentative list is BOS, PHL, ACY, RIC, PNE and ILG. o The tracking of actual use will be the issu e and having the information in the scratchpad would probably be the best. PHL uses this option now for inbounds to any towers they run traffic to.