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am endment for the RNAV SIDs. This is because of how flights are currently being vectored to join the RNAV SIDs or Initial Departure Fix (IDF) for the procedures, which will remain essentially the same post - amendment. As such, no further analysis is required and supporting documentation for the file is being drafted for signatures . o The DC Metroplex continues provide the appropriate training for the upcoming December 10, 2015 publication cycle as well as working on the training packages, video maps, automat ion, etc., for the remaining two publication cycles, which are Febru ary 4, 2016 and March 31, 2016. Additionally, we participated at the request of MITRE in "Lessons Learned" portion of the project. We provided numerous issues, in which all were discussed, in which some has already been implemented while others will be discussed during the next Co - Leads meetings. o Submitted by Bennie Hutto Article 48 Rep, DC Metroplex ยท Charlotte Metroplex o The Charlotte Metroplex Project is working on several p ost implementation issues and planning for our next implementation cycle. We met with the AAL station manager, assisted PSA and CLT with airline specific issue and had meetings with the southeast Manager of Tactical Operations (MTO) and the Charlotte Aviat ion Director. We have been working with the Charlotte airport officials and the Eastern Service Center (ESC) on community outreach and assisting to respond to a specific noise complaint. We have a concern with the south departures and have reached out to l ocal NATCA and management to gauge their concern. o The team met with the CLT, ZID and CTL teams to resolve several LOA issues and to make a few improvements to three procedures from our October implementation. AAL and SWA assisted in the procedure desig ns and this work was cleared by our environmental specialist and the subjected to safety risk management review. Work was done to improve the next group of procedures to be implemented. By applying lessons learned from the October implementation we should limit the issues for the next group of procedures. An airspace issues was identified via ATSAP and the CLT team has a solution they are working at the facility level. o The station manager is pleased with the October implementation and we had productive discussions on how we can improve communication on subsequent efforts. The MTO offered advice for the future and asked that we work with the Atlanta team to help smooth their implementation. The MTO is pleased with the implementation. The Charlotte aviatio n director is pleased with the procedures in that these disperse noise more equitably. They have asked us to do outreach for the future cycles and this information has been passed up out chain of command. The ESC received a specific single noise complaint and we assisted in providing data to respond. Charlotte airport received this complaint as well and are comfortable that this was to be expected given the dispersion built in to the procedures. The south departures seem to be working and the manager and FA CREP are comfortable. Given that Charlotte has a waiver for these departures we asked the team to design a