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will now have representation on the team when we restart the process March 29. o Submitted by Bill Wise, ESA PBN Rep • CSA PBN o The first week of February brought with it the VORMON meetings in DC as well as a Chart Date on the 4 th . VORMON has been well communicated down to the FPT levels of the OSGs, but facility coordination is still lacking. The publis hed plan lacks true structure but we plan to use that to our advantage and try and look forward for discontinuances that we can tie in to our .41 workgroup projects. The MON seems to be in place a few years early as in every project we touch, we are able to significantly reduce reliance on traditional navaids and pave the way for the VORMON to work disco ntinuance and decommissioning. This is an important distinction : discontinuance is the elimination of the VOR but DME functionality remains. Decommissioning is the actual destr uction of the site altogether. Publications on Feb 4 th included a large - scale redesign of the SID products for all of the North Texas Metroplex procedures as well as procedures at KMKE. Implementation was challenged because of a large nu mber of carriers and pilots switching FMS databases early on the evening of the 3 rd . D10 and ZFW had an extraordinary increase in workload that evening to correct airborne pilots who had errantly l oaded the incorrect procedure. Mr. Luna has discussed this with our other PBN reps but the charts only list dates of effectiveness and not act ual times that he is aware of. We also have to think about local FAST and Tech Ops to see if setting a firmer time for Users to switchover isn't feasible for our facil ities to adhere to. KMKE published with an incorrect Top Altitude and the correction is scheduled to chart on the May 26 th cycle. Please Note: Continued review and support of ERAM ER136427 (Proper ERAM SI D Functionality) is requested. Sabu Varghese, ZFW NATCA Au tomation Rep , is working and keepin g affected facilities updated. Currently, it has been shelved by the NUT (National User Team) , but we are hoping for attention to it soon. o The 2 nd week of February was at the RO with emphasis on a final KMSP Post Implemen tation Forms Review with the Workgroup and mor e information from the VORMON. We held a Pre - Meeting with Austin WG to prepare for the upcomin g meetings later in the month. We also held an internal to OSG meeting concerning the KSAT PBN requests and the upco ming MAGVAR there. A plan is in place to accomplish all necessary amendments over 2 - 3 chart cycles and we meet in San Antonio with the WG in March. o During the 3 rd week of February, Central hosted a TARGETS class taught by Scott Stoltzfus of CSSI and his st aff. Participation was excellent with many from the OSG attending as well as NATCA mem bers and local area 530 shops. Hobby VOR discontinuance telcons were atte nded in support of the VORMON. ZMP has a T - Route project that has been lost since it wa s original ly submitted in 2011. Mr. Luna and others are resurrecting these plans and working to get this moving again through the .41 process. o This last week of February was spent in Austin working to finalize the ir Post - Implementation designs. KAUS, KSAT, ZHU, ZFW, SWA, AUS Airport Authority, and the Ci ty of Austin all participated. There are a few