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ATCA conference. · Participated in a telcon with Tom Adcock (NATCA National Training Rep) to discuss training development for the newly released FAA Notice 7210.889. · Participated in an AJV - 7 meeting for Model AC/UAS Concept s and Ops Requirements Development WAKE TURBULENCE OFFICE: Scott Pressley (BHM) represents the NATCA bargaining units by working with the Wake Turbulence Office. Mr. Pressley forwarded the information below for the update. · The week of October 26th was spent working on organizing the more than 4 years of data gathered while performing article 48 duties as the Wake Turbulence rep. The task became more daunting when Mr. Pressley realized that he saved everything. o With over 200 presentations a nd the volumes of studies that Mr. Pressley has had access to, one would expect the process of going through it all and determining what to keep and what to delete will take a couple of weeks. o Mr. Pressley has announced his retirement at the end of thi s year. It is expected his replacement will not have as fractured of a thought process as he does (better known as scatter brained in Alabama) so it is important to first delete the duplicate documents and better organize what is left. Then the same will need to be done, although on a smaller scale, for the data gathered with his IFATCA duties. · Time was also spent on telcons working out issues with the upcoming RECAT implementation in the Denver area. WEATHER: Matt Tucker (ZTL) represents NAT CA's membership on all things weather. Mr. Tucker's update for this week is below. · Operational two days. · NWP – National Weather Project o Attended multiple CHI meetings for the NEXTGEN Weather Processor (NWP) to work on workflow and in itial display requirements. The program is still waiting for Raytheon to respond on how they want to work through the CHI process. · Contract Weather Observer (CWO) to Limited Aviation Weather Reporting Stations (LAWRS) o The agency announced last week the 57 sites that will begin the process for transitioning from CWO to LAWRS. An email was sent to all the affected FACREPS to explain the process. o The first order of business will be conduct SRMP's at each of the facilities. o The main thing t o remember is that is a financial decision by the agency. NATCA did not pursue the transition. o Controllers already do the observations at a couple hundred sites, it is part of facility pay band determination but that was never part of the decision process. If facilities have a legitimate staffing issue then their transition would be delayed until staffing is sufficient for the transition. If the facility determines a valid safety case then that would also be considered in the transition.