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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIRSPACE : Jim Davis (PCT) is the National Air space Representa tive for NATCA. Below are reports from the various airspace team leads and Mr. Davis. Denver Metroplex Update – 08/24/16 : The Denver Metroplex core team conducted SRM Panels to begin the validation of the proposed design. The SRM Panels found few safety r isks, and those that were identified were successfully mitigated. The next step to further validate the proposed design will be HITL simulations in the coming months. Outreach activities with select officials began with high level briefings conducted by t he Regional Administrator and the Team Leads. These high level briefings were well received by the select officials. Further work and refinement continues on the proposed outreach activities upcoming through the summer of 2017. Mark Ostronic Denver Metrop lex Article 48 NATCA Lead Flo rida Metroplex September Report: Florida Metroplex co - leads attended Me troplex Leads meeting in Boston. Florida Metroplex co - leads communicated with ESA Directors referenc ing ongoing Metroplex activities. Also communicated wit h the OSG at the ESA. Florida Metroplex co - leads met with our core team and some facility POCS to plan for the following upcoming challenges for the project: Outreach Completing preliminary design packages Conducting 2 HITLs scenarios Supplied required inp ut to Headquarters. Submitted by Greg Harris, Florida Metroplex NATCA Art 48 rep Charlotte Metroplex August 2016 : August began with the Charlotte team continu ing to work is sues related to the July 21st implementation. The m ain issue identified with this i mplementation is the anchor point of the JONZE STAR is at or above 7000, w hich is causing Delta MD80/B717 s being high on prof ile when on a north operation. The "at or above" altitude has been identified to be redesigned to an "at altitude" in our September post implementation meeting. The mitigation was for Delta to file the conventional STAR until the procedure is redesigned. One issue with that mitigation was there is an ADAR that was reassigning the aircraft back on to the JONZE even when DAL filed the c onventional STAR. DAL dispatchers were very cooperative with the team in working thr ough this issue and by having the dispatchers file a RNAV arrival value of zero they are able to fly the conventional STAR. Atlanta ARTCC is amending the ADAR so that DAL w ill not have to take the additional step when filing the STAR and that will take effect with the September 15th build. In addition to the l ead carrier being at the post implementation meeting, representatives from Delta and some of the regional carrier s wi ll be attending. The regional carrier's fleet mix has many non - vnav aircraft, which systemically have issues with the optimized profile descent procedures. The team has continued to work with the Regional Administrator and personnel for the Service Center over noise concerns from the communities from t he southwest area of Charlotte. The noise complaints appear to be isolated to this one quadrant , even though all quadrants ' procedures utilize the same type of dispersion techniques for departures.