A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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To register for a session, visit portal.natca.net . Click "Events" on the menu bar on the home pag e, then select the "2016 NATCA Edge Online Retirement Webinar" link. Follow the questions and directions from there. P ersonalized benefit estimate for participants paid for a s an exclusive benefit for NATCA members. You will NEVER be solicited or sold anyt hing, EVER! For any questions or problems with registration, please c ontact Grace Colby , NATCA Executive Administrative Assistant : (202) 220 - 9829 , gcolby@natcadc.org . SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIRSPACE TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION – 2 (ATD - 2): Pete Slattery (CLT) is the Article 48 Representative for NATC A on this NASA driven project. Below is Mr. Slattery's report to the membership for this week. • ATD - 2 activity has been a bit slow over the holiday period, but it looks like things are beginning to pick up. • During the first week of December , I visited ZDC with the NASA ATD - 2 engineering team. The purpose of the visit was to introduce the ATD - 2 concept to them and exchange information about traffic flows and what they could expect once CLT begins using ATD - 2 equipment and procedures. • On Friday, Jan 8th, the NextGen office made a presentation at Charlotte Douglas International detailing current and future NextGen initiatives at the CLT airport. ATD - 2 was among the programs highlighted. There was a heavy local media presence and stories ran on most local evening news outlets. Jeff Woods represented NATCA National and spoke during the roundtable and Q&A parts of the event. • This week Mr. Slattery will be traveling to the NASA Ames Research facility at Moffet Field California. NASA is holding and Industry Day forum to inform the aviation stakeholder community about many of its aerospace research projects including ATD - 2. Both ATD - 2 Integrated Arrival/Departure/Surfac e Metroplex Scheduling and ATD - 3 Applied Traffic Flow Management will be primary topics of discussion. • Mr. Slattery will reinforce NATCA ' s position that EFD is an essential element of ATD - 2 at the forefront of any discussions he is involved in. DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the DataComm Articl e 48 Representative for NATCA. Mr. Geyer forwarded the information below for the membership. • Over the last month the program office has been working the training development issue. The previous vendor had stated t hat they could replicate TDLS keyboard commands in ELMS. Come to find out that with the new version of Internet Explorer and the JAVA coding for training, this is not compatible. It was agreed that the training would be developed on a CBI platform that wou ld require a CD type of platform so that the keyboard entries could be coded for training. Tom Gray (OAK) was in Troy, Mich., to help design the storyboards for the CBI training. Other members of the team were in Falls Church, V a. , in December to finish up the Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) CBI. The CPDLC training should be complete by mid - February and the PDC CBI should be completed by mid - April.