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STAR Runway Transition Guidance – Follow up discussions from the Houston and Oklahoma City Flight Simulation regarding changing an aircraft's Runway Transition when the aircraft is within 10 miles of or has passed the Runway Transition Waypoint (RTW). Will go over the outcomes and proposed guidance and procedures TCAS phraseology – NBAA proposes Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)/Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) Resolution Advisory (RA) phraseology for inclusion in the AIM, and if needed, FAA 7110.65 STAR Top Altitude Charting - NATCA & AFS-420 raised concerns at the ACF about only being allowed to publish a maximum of two Top Altitudes on a SID when those SIDS also cover additional airports and each airport would have the SID published for the airport. A recommendation is to allow more than two Top Altitudes for the additional airports on a SID. NextGen Integration Work group (NIWG) PBN Nothing new to report. Our next meeting will be held on August 2, 2016. Established on Departure Operations (EDO) The Dallas and Atlanta Metroplex developed RNAV SIDs that use a transitional waypoint into the terminal or enroute environment where once the lead aircraft passes the transitional waypoint, the longitudinal separation could be discontinued as the routes would be procedurally separated. The Atlanta waiver was originally denied and the agency never responded to the Dallas waiver. Since no movement had been made by the agency for over two years, it was brought to light when the Atlanta Metroplex implemented their RNAV SIDS and could not use EDO, which decreased the planned efficiency. Recently, a meeting was held in Atlanta and followed by a Work Group meeting in Washington, DC were several recommendations were made to move forward and would require studies to be conducted at the Tech Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The Tech Center has responded with a few options on how to move forward with a cost ranging from $300K to 450K. We will be discussing these options to determine how best to move forward and if any of the work could be performed at the facilities in Atlanta and Dallas. National Strategic Production Planning (NSPP) We meet every Tuesday and discuss the procedures that are scheduled for implementation across the country making sure they moving through the process correctly and in a timely manner. AJV-14 & Flight Standards Conversations STAR Terminus - We have been discussing the recent changes to several documents (FAA 8260.3C, 8260.58A, and 7100.19G) concerning criteria for designing RNAV STARS. The changes for the STAR Terminus waypoint will have a direct impact on how we move forward designing STARS if the language is not changed. Currently, the language requires a mandatory altitude at the STAR Terminus waypoint for procedures that end with a track or heading even if the procedure is not a "Descend Via" procedure.

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