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Administrators will take on a bulk of the workload for getting this task accomplished. o We are currently in the process of preparing for the Airspace Services Summit (formerly known as the Metroplex Summit) meeting that is currently scheduled to take place on March 1 - 3, 2016 at Mitre. We have been involved in helping the Western Service Center develop a response to several congressional inquiries in Northern California stemming from community concerns. In addition, PBN is also looking at ways to coordinate with the VOR MON program and continue to help improve the PBN Dashboard. o Submitted by Metroplex Study Team Lead Art. 48 Ed Hulsey . • NATCA National Airspace Rep o Community outreach continues to be discussed at many levels, we are workin g with the agency to try and reach a position to assist our current teams and have a long - term plan moving forward. Jodi McCarthy, Director of Airspace Services, has agreed to put a small team together to put a plan on paper. o The NAS NAV Strategy document has been approved by the RTCA NAC. We are assuming the document will be approved by the administrator in the near future , then work can be started on an associated CONOPS and Implementation Plans. o We are in discussion with the agency to create a robust and user - friendly PBN Lessons Learned site. Our desire is to create a site teams can turn to for answers about PBN design and associated problem areas. This should help areas avoid mistakes we are familiar with in other places of the NAS. o Submitted by Jim Dav is (PCT) NATCA National Airspace Rep . RNAV and PERFORMANCE BASED NAVIGATION (PBN ): Dennis Kelly (PHL) is the Article 48 Representative f or RNAV and PBN criteria work. Mr. Kelly's report for the membership is below. • NextGen Integration Work group (NIWG) P BN - DEN EOR o Much of the talk was the need for the waiver and eventual rule to be extended for IMC operations. Things are working fine VMC. There was also discussion of not pursuing Track to Fix (TF) options even though they have a fairly high RJ fleet tha t cannot do the RNP ARs with the RF turns. They think they can compensate like they do now and that the fleet mix will convert more to PBN centric. This is the key sticking point. SWA continues to push for all RF. o Current status: RF Duals Safety Analysis R eport – 9 months Triples (TF) Safety Analysis Report – 6 months Triples (both TF and RF) Safety Analysis Report – 12 months XLS Transition Safety Analysis Report – 12 months (AFS ops group still determining if a HITL is needed which would extend this time) o Considerations In order to complete Triples (TF and RF), RF Duals analysis must be completed first .