COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
N ATCA ' s 16TH BIENNIAL CONVENTION
AUG. 30 - SEPT. 2, SAN DIEGO
How to find key information as we count down t o the start of the convention!
Convention Website
Registration
Agenda (as of Aug. 17; subject to change)
Facebook Page
Local Convention Subsidy Form
National Executive Board (NEB) Resolutions
NEB Report on Policies/Position Statements
Proposed Amendments and Resolutions
The current NATCA Constitution
Pre - Convention Classes
Registration for Pre - Convention Classes
NEW AND NOW AVAILABLE – THE CONVENTION APP! (Week of Aug. 22):
Please click here to learn more, including how to download the app, or to download the
update if you already have the app on your mobile device.
FULL CONVENTION COVERAGE: The Communications De partment will
publish two convention newspapers for distribution on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. The print
edition will be distributed outside the convention main hall while the electronic version
will be available on the app, the convention website, the members s ide of the natca.org
website, the daily press clippings, and on NATCA social media outlets.
Additionally, we will provide a complete wrap - up of the convention in the NATCA
Insider on Friday, Sept. 9 , which, like all issues of the Insider, is emailed direc tly to you.
COMPLETE PHOTO ALBUMS: Will be available on our Flickr photo site .
NATCA IN THE MEDIA – NOTABLE RECENT COVERAGE :
Salt Lake City : On Monday, Aug. 15, the FAA hosted a press even t at Salt Lake
City ATCT (SLC) to tout the implementation of Data Comm at the facility. NATCA
Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert, NATCA Northwest Mountain Regional Vice
President Doug Pincock, NATCA Data Comm Representative Jim McAllister , and
NATCA SL C FacRep Chris Bakke attended the event and spoke on behalf of NATCA to
explain the program ' s benefits to air traffic controllers and the flying public. Said Gilbert
at the event: "Data Comm improves the air traffic controllers' ability to expeditiously
mo ve busy traffic. It gives tower controllers the ability to share large amounts of data and
information with each individual aircraft. The pilots can then load the information into
their onboard navigation systems. Controllers can even set the system to aut o mode and
allow the system to send the flight/route information without controller involvement."
To read Trish's full remarks, pleas e click here .
Press coverage, from the Salt Lake Tribune and KUTV - TV .
New York : Earlier this month, WNBC - TV New York Reporter Stefan Holt
interviewed NATCA Eastern Regional Vice Presid ent Dean Iacopelli about air traffic
controller staffing at New York TRACON and the nationwide staffing crisis. The story
aired on Aug. 18. " You never see them, but they see you, and every time you fly, your
life is in their hands, " reports the anchor who introduces the story. " We ' re talking about
air traffic controllers, who orchestrate thousands of flights safely through the skies every
day. It is a high stress job, and News 4 Investigates discovered there ' s a shortage of
these guardian angels. "
