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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
 AIRSPACE: Jim Davis (PCT) is the National Airspace Representative for NATCA. Below are reports from the various airspace team leads and Mr. Davis: Charlotte Metroplex – July 2016 The month of July has been very busy for the Charlotte Metroplex team. As the team worked through a myriad of issues in preparation for conducting a community outreach prior to our July implementation as well as working through the last minute issues for the implementation of nine new procedures, up numbering three procedures, and all associated airspace changes to support. The public outreach was held in the northeast part of Charlotte. In attendance were twenty-four citizens. This number was considerably less than the 120 plus at our first outreach held in May. Twenty-three were from the Southwest area, (Chapel Cove, Sanctuary, Steele Creek neighborhoods); this area was impacted by the Oct 2015 implementation. The attendees were very passionate but all remained civil. No local council or congressional members attended. Four NATCA members participated, as SME's to answer any technical questions the community members. July 21st implementation of the above procedures and airspace was executed with only minor issues. PSA airlines had some flight planning issues and some of the aircraft did not have the current database however their lead dispatcher was very responsive and issues are being handled quickly. Automation issues have been relatively minor with the majority of the issues being within CLT TRACON, and are being addressed. The TFMS system requiring update prior to the ERAM build continues to be an issue with each implementation. Submitted by Ron Myers - CLT Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Florida Metroplex - July 2016 Florida Metroplex continued to work the southern part of the project. Miami Approach, Miami Center and Palm Beach Approach continued to work the challenges of the complex airspace of south Florida. The preliminary work is complete and now we are planning a HITL to evaluate the designs. Met with Atlantic Coast Route Project (ACRP) Co-lead to discuss how to integrate Q-routes and Y-routes from the Florida Metroplex project to ACRP. Submitted by Greg Harris - Florida Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Atlanta Metroplex – July 2016 The Atlanta Metroplex team is continuing work towards our 9/15/16 changes and our 11/15/16 STARs implementation. The Team met with ZTL and A80 on 6/28 to discuss our 11/15/16 STAR Implementation. During the meeting we came up with a plan for usage of the OPDs. Our plan is to use the OPDs for 4 hours on day one and to steadily increase that usage to full time. Delta is concerned about reduction of throughput during implementation, so we believe this plan will allow for no throughput reduction. During implementation we will have Delta representatives at A80 and ZTL to help us monitor and to ensure everything is going well. On 7/20 we met with Delta, also included was A80, ZTL, and SWA. This meeting was to go over our plan and make sure they were on board. There was a lot of discussion revolving OPDs and if they increase delay in the system. ZTL said that with their experiences with the CLT Metroplex implementations, you could still run an efficient

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