A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/778317
SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT FL IGHT DATA INPUT OUTPUT (FDIO) Corey Soignet (LFT) is the FD IO Article 114 Representative. Also included in Mr. Soignet's duties are Article 114 representation for the Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System (EFSTS). Mr. Soignet forwarded the information below for the membership Friday Jan 20th was the completion of MSP EFSTS ERK Keyboard Replacement (Phase 2). During our time there we were able to personally train 3/4 of their controllers on the new touch screen that replaces the existing keypad. NATCA and Management are in agreement that they will be able to train the remaining controllers without our assistance. EFSTS in a box (our travel kit) will remain in MSP until the remaining cont rollers have been trained. Once all of the controllers are trained they will have their maintenance personnel install in the tower at all positions and begin the 21 - day suitability check then go IOC. MSP will report back after the 21 days to report suita bility. Overall input from the controllers and management was positive. Everyone seemed to love the new touch screen and were looking forward to using it instead of the old keypads. Onsite adaptations were made to the touchscreen at the request of the f acility to correct identified decencies. At the completion of the site visit MSP NATCA accepted all adaptations. TERMIN AL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Article 114 Representative for TFDM. Mr. Baugh's update is below. We are cont inuing to work towards the initial build for TFDM that will be deployed to PHX in 2018 with an IOC date in 2019. Leidos hosted the TFDM team in a Preliminary Design Review the week of 1/10 where we continued to finalize the requirements and build plan for the next year. The TFDM team will head to the Leidos facility the week of 1/30 to participate in the first of three Early User Involvement Events (EUIE s). These EUIE s are designed to give the team actual hands on experience with the build that we have been developing over the past f ew months. Along with the EUIE s are four scheduled Post Release Demo s (PDR), in which we will continue to oversee the builds d evelopment prior to deployment. Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) The newest build, 5.3. 0.3, has been running in CLE since 1/6/17 with no f ailures and only minor issues. It will undergo a final DT testing next week at the tech center before being te sted in PHX in early February. We will test on the mids in PHX with local SME s supporting th e effort. Once they are satisfied with the build and it's performance, we will leave the build running. Once we have PHX upgraded, CLT is next on the list and is scheduled to begin training in the spring.