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o Participated on Metroplex weekly telcon discussion was o n ERAM SIG1587, the amendments on Phoenix SIDS being pushed back to March, community outreach for the Metroplex teams. o Participated on weekly OSG telcon, Discussion revolved around the PBN dashboard and how difficult it was to get information from it o r get around on the site. Mr. McKelligan will talk to Robert Novia (FAA) about setting up a meeting with the PBN configuration group to get these issues addressed. o Participated on a telcon with Steve Hansen (NATCA Safety Lead) and the CLT D&I Leads abo ut the upcoming implementation on 10/15/15 and who from safety will cover the 3 main sites. o Attended 2 days of lesson learned meetings in NCT. We also discussed after the team's final amendments go in December they will transition to 7100.41 and how th at process works. The plan today is Metroplex will handoff to the facilities the week of 12/14/15. o Attended 2 days of meetings with the Denver D&I team where they decided to go with the 8 Stars design, all core team members agreed to this as well as th e United, Frontier, and American Tech reps. The only dissenting opinion was from SWA airlines. Chris Thomas (Art 48 co - lead) did an outstanding job keeping the discussion on point. o Attended a "catch up" telcon with Jim Davis and Ed Hulsey. o Submitted by Mark McKelligan (ZBW) National D&I Rep · NATCA National Airspace Rep o Participated in the weekly Telcon with Frank Black, Deputy Director of Airspace Services o Participated in the weekly NATCA Safety and Tech Telcon o Partic ipated in the weekly Telcon with John Brandt, Mitre Airspace Lead o Participated in the Community Outreach Telcon o Discussed Ntexas next steps o Participated on the weekly OSG Telcon o Participated on multiple Telcons concerning Metroplex o Submitted by Jim Davis (PCT) NATCA National Airspace Rep DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the DataComm Article 48 Representative for NATCA. His update for this week is below. · IAH has declared IOC. This means that CPDLC operations are being con ducted by controllers. Thanks to Will Hutson (NATCA) and Miles Magnuson (Management), the local 48 team, for all of their hard work. The group worked together in a very collaborative manner. · HOU is conducting their DFV formal event this week. Thi s means that controllers are sending CPDLC clearances to aircraft and validating message content with voice read backs. · SLC and BOI will be receiving the new TDLS build this week and validating PTR fixes and enhancements. · The TDLS Appli cation Specialist Operational Try - out was completed this week thanks to the help of Brian Lapidus (JFK), Daniel Smith (CVG), and Mike Warfel (SAN). There were comments that came out for improving the course instruction and those will be incorporated into t he First Course Conduct training.