A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/589908
§ Promote the increased use of PBN approaches at the six targeted airports and TRACONs during a specified initiative period. § Collect PBN approach usage metrics and lessons learned that will provide the foundation for a plan to shift reliance on ILS appro aches to PBN approaches. o Project Overview § The ATIS PBN Approach Initiative Project will continue for 90 days with extensions possible if it becomes necessary to complet e data collection and analysis. Project activities will include: o Baseline oper ations at the six airports; § Collaborating with each affected Air Traffic Facility and selected airport users; § Developing an initiative plan for each airport; o Data collection; § Data analysis § Reporting findings o The project will be conducted in two phases. Phase 1 will implement ATIS messages advertising PBN approach availability in addition to the primary approach in use at each airport. Data will be collected on usage to assess the effectiveness of this individual action. § Phase 2 will seek t o promote the use of PBN approaches as the preferred approach procedure at an airport and will be accompanied by extensive coordination with airline operators and users (e.g., NBAA). This phased approach will yield insight into the discrete effectiveness o f ATIS messages and coordination between the FAA, airline operators, and other users. · PBN Strategy WG meetings - Mixed equipage – Still arguing over whether TF or RF legs s hould be emphasized in the NAS. At this point, equipage is decent for RF but there are plenty who don't have that capability and an RF strategy would exclude them. Mixed equipage is go ing to be around for some time. The group sounds like they want to move to a "use appropriate tool for the job" approach, which can b e vague. The de cision was to favor RF an d only use TF when you have to. This would probably be determined locally. o Defining PBN – At a NAC meeting, it came out that the FAA is not that concerned about conventional procedures staying around, which is contrary to what most groups have recommended in order to move forward with a PBN NAS and cost effectiveness. o GBAS – The FAA feels that they've provide an infrastructure with PBN to replace ILS eventually wi th the WAAS and LPV approaches. The users still feel that the GBAS route is a better way to go and be more cost effective in the long run. Still fighting over this. · PDC and Clearance RNAV SID Enroute transition issue – There have been a few things that have come to light lately at DEN and the DC Metroplex air ports that indicates the problems need to be addressed and advertised. o Denver Center has experienced numerous incidents in the last 13 months in which aircraft have incorrectly flown the YOKES4 RNAV SID, DEHLI transition by making an unexpected turn af ter YOKES and going direct to DEHLI or some other point in their flight plan