A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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§ BWI is briefing RWSL at their RSAT on September 9, Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) planned for late 2016, IOC mid 2017. § JFK is being installed in three phases, phase 1 shadow ops and IOC s cheduled for lat October 2015. Phases 2 and 3 should reach IOC next summer. · Runway Safety: o DFW airport continues to work through issues raised by the Surface Safety Initiative Team (SSIT) and its Comprehensive Airport Review and Assessment (CARA). § Airports division identified a number of issues with the airport's geometry that it is hoping to bring into compliance with the AC, most notably at this time the large concrete areas abutting the runways, also known as hold pads. § To date the proposals would require the installation of no - taxi islands between the triple parallel taxiways that intersect the approach ends of the runways. § The effort is being shepherded by DFW's LSC Chair, Bridget Gee and FacRep Heather Gerbitz with my su pport as needed. o A telcon was held on Thursday 9/3 by members of the runway safety program office, Steve Hansen (NATCA Safety Representative) and Mr. Loewen to work on matrices that will be used to identify focus airports for the runway safety office n ext year and going forward. Up to this point, each region was left to fend for itself, in a manner of speaking, which may have put more energy where it wasn't effective and less energy where it was needed. Therefore to better leverage the resources withi n the runway safety program office to support areas of risk, a data driven approach will be applied to identify airports in the NAS that have a greater risk of runway safety issues (incursions, excursions, etc). It is important to note that the list of fo cus airports will not be a list of airports identified as unsafe, but rather those that face greater challenges than others. o The regular Airport Construction Advisory Committee (ACAC) telcon was canceled due to scheduling conflicts with the council Cha ir. SURVEILLANCE and BROADCAST SERVICES (SBS) OFFICE: Eric Labardini (ZHU) leads the NATCA effort with the SBS Office. Mr. Labardini and the ADS - B Article 48 Team members have forwarded their reports for the week. · Eric Labardini (ZHU), National SBS Article 48 Rep o Participated in multiple telcons this week including: SBS Implementation, SBS Weekly, TSLE telcon, Fusion Pre - Op, and Aireon Technical Interchange. Also led our weekly NATCA SBS telcon. o SBS has achieved an ADS - B IOC at all EnRoute sites and 66 Terminal sites. Most of these Terminal sites are operating in Fusion. ADS - B configuration changes continue to expand the use of ADS - B in non - radar airspace with all but one EnRoute site and multiple Terminal sites compl ete.