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National Office Week in Review: September 2, 2015

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o Submitted by Las Vegas Metropl ex Study Team Lead Art. 48 Ron Myers (ZDC) · NorCal Metroplex o Stage 5A Post - Implementation work ongoing: positive feedback from both NCT and ZOA re: the DYAMD STAR into SFO (both facilities continue to get questions from pilots about the known disconnect with 2 approaches; questions expected to decrease as familiarity increases); other issues are being triaged real - time, as appropriate. o Attended the Denver Metroplex I - SIM HITLs at ZDV. Provided NorCal Metroplex background information and ob served SIM runs. o Participated in the Weekly NorCal Telcon: discussed the post - implementation status of Stage 5A; discussed upcoming Lessons Learned at NCT Aug 31 - Sep 1 and Core/POC Meeting Sep 2 (Wed). o Weekly National Metroplex Telcon cancelled du e to unavailability of participants (Wed). o Outstanding: SoCal and NorCal Metroplex Teams still need to meet and discuss necessary changes to entry and exit fixes. Initial informational PowerPoint received from ZLA; ZLA and ZOA to work out agenda, neces sary SMEs, availability of each team and location / type of meeting. o Upcoming: Aug 31 – Sep 2 (NCT) Lessons Learned Meeting with SMEs and MTRE, followed by Core / POC Meeting; Sep 21 – 25 Metroplex Summit (DC); TBD: Meeting with SoCal Metroplex Team o Worked 1 Operational shift for currency and staffing. o Submitted by Amanda Hodge (ZOA), Article 48 Rep, NorCal Metroplex · CLE/DTW Metroplex o Met with D21 to restructure airspace for the final design and update the AIR - 5 file to ready for t he SMS in mid - September o Draw some stick figure design for relocation of sectors within D21 in the new airspace configuration o Telcons with ZOB on task list issues to include holding patterns, fix adjustments, tabled elements and other corrections id entified during design and evaluation stage. This also included items with D21. o Telcon with CSA safety on the upcoming plans for the SMS process in mid - September o Telcon with CSA on project status and questions from staff. Issues covered where Environmental, Airway elimination, procedure timelines, SMS, F&E expenditures and etc. o Telcon with small group of facilities on Metroplex's plan to eliminate unused airways that clutter the project area. o Telcon with Toronto Center on lessons learned from cross border issue and Jeppesen chart coding. Also issues for the national ATSAP team on fix use. o Finalizing a meeting with ZAU on remaining Metroplex issues. o Updated the calendar and attendees for the upcoming meeting into October o Week's ahead: 8/31 - 9/3 D21 airspace, 9/8 - 11 ZAU, 9/14 - 17 ZOB o Submitted by Don Ossinger (ZBW), Article 48 Rep, CLE/DTW Metroplex · Denver Metroplex Design & Implementation o August 23 - 27, 2015 – ATAC ISIMs at ZDV

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