A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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Nothing new CLE Nothing new LAS Nothing new SFO Nothing new EWR Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) MITRE has provided the materials showing the differences between TFDM ' s Surface Situational Awareness (SSA) tool and what the NAS Operational Dashboard (NOD), in use at the command cente r. Our concern is that the NOD will be developed beyond the requirements of what TFDM currently has and will thus negate any benefits of TFDM ' s SSA i n the TRACON's and centers. We will review the materials and make any suggestions once we are able. TIME B ASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM) Eric Owens (I90) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM. His report to the membership is below. The week of July 5th, the TBFM Ops Team went to SLC to conduct an IDAC Site Survey. IDAC will be installed at SLC ATCT to help condition the departure flow for TSAS implem entation at Seattle and Denver. In addition, we had a group in New York to conduct an IDAC Site Survey at TEB and HPN. The week of July 10th, a group from the Ops Team went to ZAB for the TBFM 4.7 key site. The main capability delivered in this build was the inclusion of o ceanic and Mexican air traffic. This key site was successfu l. We also had a team at Atlantic City to conduct a 4.8 Op s Evaluation and TSAS meeting. The Ops Evaluation was held a little too earl y to really be beneficial so I asked the Program Manager to schedule another Ops Evaluation in the future. The next 4.8 Ops Evaluation w ill take place during October. The TSAS meeting was primarily fo cused on training development. We will begin training de velopment the last week of August 2017 in Oklahoma City. The training workgroup will meet the last week on every month until development is complete. The week of July 17th, I was in D.C. to perform Article 114 duties and meet with the Trajecto ry Based Ope rations workgroup. We also h ad a TBFM 4.7 Key Site at ZID. Unfortunately, we had issues with the way the system performed at ZID so we uninstalled the new build and asked the contractor to build a patch to fix the identified issues. The patch will be deliv ered and another key site will be performed late August or early September. The week of July 24th, we had a team in Miami to help ZMA wit h the FLL TBFM arrival system. Miami TRACON controllers were in attendance a nd the meeting went very well. Another mee ting will take place in September to work on the MIA TBFM arrival system.