COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
WANTED: YOUR BEST FACILITY PHOTOS: We are working on the 2017 NATCA wall
calendar and have a few spots open. Do you have a favorite photo of the outside of your
facility? Please send as high a resolution version of the photo as you have to Laura
Roose at lroose@natcadc.org .
FULL COVERAGE OF N ATCA ' s 16TH BIENNIAL CONVENTION , SAN DIEGO :
OPENING VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: The opening video shown at the
convention and then again at various points throughout the event is now uploaded to our
convention video page. Please click here to view it.
CONVENTION VIDEO: All Day 1 and Day 2 video from the convention is
uploaded to our member video channe l. Please click here . Coming soon: Day 3 video.
THE DELEGATE NEWSPAPER :
Wednesday, Aug. 31 Issue – Please click here .
Friday, Aug. 31 Issue – Please click here .
PHOTO ALBUM : Four mem bers of the NATCA family worked as photographers
during convention – Douglas Jones, Jay Til les, Joh nny Temple, and Justina Hlavka –
and provided incredible visual coverage of this successful and unifying convention. We
invite you to check out their work as part of our Flickr site . As more of their photos are
processed, edited, and uploaded, we'll keep adding them to this album so please check
back in the coming days and weeks. Pleas e click here to see the album .
FULL CONVENTION WRAP - UP COVERAGE: The Communications
Department provided a complete wrap - up of the convention in the NATCA Insider on
Friday, Sept. 9 . Please click here.
TRISH GILBERT NAMED TO RTCA DRONE ADVISORY COMMITTEE : Executive Vice
President Trish Gilbert has accepted an invitation from the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) to serve on the newly established RTCA Drone Ad visory
Committee (DAC) and join a wide array of key aviation stakeholders. We issued a press
release on Sept. 8. From the release:
" The DAC is tasked with a very important mission: Safely integrating Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspa ce System (NAS). ' NATCA has worked
collaboratively with the FAA and stakeholders on safe integration of UAS and we're
looking forward to continuing that strong collaboration by participating on the DAC,'
Gilbert said. ' We support the many benefits of UAS i n the NAS but integration needs to
be done safely and methodical ly, and as swiftly as possible.'"
To rea d the full release, please click here.
MORE FROM THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SHOP
Upcoming events and press oppo rtunities:
Tucson : Sept. 23; an FAA - led press event to mark the new tower opening there.
Tulsa: Sept. 23 is also the date for an FAA press event to mark the re - opening of
the tower in Tulsa. Our members there were forced to work out of a temporary tower for
the past several months as unsafe working conditions forced repair work in the main
tower.
DataComm - Joint Press Event With FAA: Sept. 27 at Dul les Tower. A second
event, at JFK Tower, is in the planning stages as well.
San Francisco: The FAA is planning a press event on Oct. 11 to mark the
opening of the new SFO tower.
