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National Office Week in Review: Jan. 20, 2016

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o At airports with multiple anemometers , the display is configured two ways. At sites with only two sensors the display will show two side - by - side wind roses with the airport wind as a ribbon read out. The airport wind will be a 2 - minute average , just like the ASOS winds and the current wind shear systems in the NAS. The two wind roses will be continuous readouts of direction and speed. Only the airport wind will display gus t information. At airports with more than two sensors , all the winds will in a ribbon form at. The airport winds will use the 2 - minute average and the other ribbon winds will be 30 - second averages. Operational testing is set to begin any day at OKC and the system is currently being tested at ONT. There are a couple of other test sites to be dete rmined due to the need to test the system interface with the IDS - R/NIDS. Samples of the displays are below and are subject to minor changes during testing.

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