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National Office Week in Review: Nov. 4, 2015

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o Progress to date, discussed FAA plan to intensify and clarify pu blic outreach o Policy sometime in near future. He is planning to come to industry outreach so will meet with him next Thursday. o Final Facilities Outreach. Attended by approximately 18 people plus the LASST team, Ed Hulsey and Dawn Ramirez did an out standing job opening the meeting. Good participation from all in attendance. Outreach went extremely well. o Not planning on attending Leads meeting next week. Team has Final Industry Outreach on Thursday as well as a vast amount of work to be completed on Final Study Team Report. o Upcoming Activities: § Las Vegas Study Team Documentation Development – Nov 2 - 4, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Final Industry Outreach Meeting – Nov 5, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Documentation Development – November 9 - 19, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Report Due – November 20, 2015 o Submitted by Las Vegas Metroplex Study Team Lead Art. 48 Ron Myers · Charlotte Metroplex o Leads at CLT Airport offices o Responded to comments and issues identified by each facilit y during the implementation. Responses have been sent to all facilities o Coordinated with all facilities to expedite the publication of the JUNNR STAR. This will eliminate an over flight concern for CLT TRACON. Still working the logistics of implementat ion but the procedure will be published in March of 2016 o Organized an abbreviated amendment for all CLT SIDS so that these all have identical notes on speed. Waiting on the publication date. o Coordinated with HSI on a TBFM issue that occurs when aircraft are "swapped". HSI is working the item and the facilities have been briefed. The fix should be done by the end of November o Completed lessons learned o Met with CLT Aviation Director and Deputy to discuss the procedures and if any new "hotspo ts" occurred. Discuss what could be done better for future implementations and for Metroplex as a program. Complaints are down but there are some new ones have occurred. The Airport is happy with the track dispersion. They have briefed City Council and hav e had no negative feedback o Issues: § Made modifications to the CHSLY STAR (May 2016 publication) to try to satisfy some of SWA's concerns. SWA is still dissatisfied but the changes do alleviate their "steep descent" concern and the change does meet cr iteria § SWA has raised concerns about the PARQR and FILPZ STARs. SWA will fly conventional procedures on 10/15/15 o Upcoming: § 11/2/15 – L.A. Regional Offices – Leads meeting § 11/9/15 – Leads at home facilities

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