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National Office Week in Review: Sept. 30, 2015

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o The Poi nt Loma Facebook page has 355 members. o There are about 1,200 comments. The team was scheduled to meet next week to continue to "bucket" comments that can be topically responded to and to categorize those that require a more in - depth response. o The Mayor of Los Angeles, the City of Orange County, SAN Airports, and the Malibu/Pacific Palisades areas have requested additional public workshops. We are waiting for direction from Headquarters. o Submitted by Jose Gonzalez Article 48 Rep, SoCal Metroplex · Charlotte Metroplex o Leads worked at MITRE . o TELCON with SWA and FAA to discuss the airline's concerns. We will continue with the 10/15/15 implementation while attempting to work with the airline on improvements. We will visit SWA and OKC to SIM the pr ocedure . o Coordinated with AAL and they have asked UAL to SIM the FILPZ . o Organizing a trip to the SWA and OKC simulators for the FILPZ . o Wrote rebuttal to SWA's concerns for FAA/NATCA l eadership . o B i - weekly implementation telcon. All facilities are on schedule for the 10/15/15 implementation . o Organized a visit to ZTL for the CLT team to see TBFM and observe the FILPZ and PARQR feeds in training scenarios . o Researched the implications of a government shutdown. All facilities are looking at this and w ill get back ASAP . o Updated Go - team information . o Asked DAL to SIM the FILPZ in a B737NG simulator . o Issues: . § Possible Gov't shutdown § SWA has raised concerns about the PARQR and FILPZ STARs. o Upcoming: § 9/28/15 – At home facilities. DAL and OKC on 10/1 & 10/2 § 10/5/15 – At ZTL o Submitted by Bob Szymkiewicz, Charlotte Metroplex Team Lead · CLE/DTW Met roplex o Worked with CLE/ZOB/ZAU on SNDRS SID with a turn angle issue for two of the satellite airports. o Passed on information from Brent Luna (CSA NATCA OSG PBN) about Q route modifications for ZID and worked an issue with ZID to include MEA on the STAR for a couple of close in airports. o Worked a segment length on SIDs from DTW with ZOB. o Telco n with CSA environmental specialist on issues that affect DTW use of runway 9 L/R and several other issues o Reviewed and revised the 100% design documents for CLE, CAK and some of DTW o Worked with the core team on requests from Delta airlines to run so final evaluations on procedures at DTW. Some flight sims will be conducted at OKC using the GE data base. o Final amendments at DTW on the Runway 27 configuratio n submitted to Tetra Tech and Core for final documentation. o Closing out FY15 budget items with HQ.

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