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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT SURVEY – TRAINING The FAA over the next year will be reviewing many aspects of air traffic training, including proficiency a nd skill enhancement training. One goal is to identify training topics that may need to be updated, while investigating new and more effectiv e methods in program delivery. Your partici pa tion in completing the linked survey conducted by the FAA ' s Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Performance will assist them in identifying the topics and de livery methods to be examined. NATCA recommends participation in this survey. Click here to start the survey. Partic ipation is completely anonymous. SURVEY – IFR/VFR CONFLICTS ATO's Safety and Technical Tr aining group (AJI) has been asked to assess the effectiveness of awareness campaign material s related to IFR/VFR conflicts. The purpose of this survey is to gather opinions on how IFR and VFR traffic is handled at your facility. The goal at this time is to gather baseline information on the current culture, attitudes, and behaviors related to managing potential IFR/VFR conflicts. The plan is to provide a follow - up survey in about a year, to assess changes in attitudes or behavior related to IFR/VFR conflict s. This IVF/VFR Conflict Attitudes survey is voluntary and all responses are anonymous. No identifiable informati on is included in this survey. NATCA has recommended participation in this survey. Please click this link to take the survey: http://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/bmp5mY NATCA Safety & Tech Upd ate Week of August 21 , 2017 ATO OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY GROUP (ATOC) Jason Grider (ZFW) is the Article 114 Representative for NATCA. Also, included in Mr. Grider's duties is Article 114 representation for the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Mr. Grider's report for this month is below. Mr. Grider and the ATOC team visited ZME and gave a briefing to air traffic, tech ops, and staff specialist on the upcoming continuity of service demo at ZME. The team was able to schedule time in the ZME TTL to run the continuity of service demo (CSD) in September 2017. The CSD will be evaluated by NATCA SME s from D10, ZFW , and ZME. The demo will consist of four simulations i n the TTL. The controllers will test the viability of divesting ZFW sectors 90, 83, 37, and 42 to ZME. The scenarios are set up to demonstrate the limitations in ERAM and STARS that exist when moving airspace to adjacent facilities. They will also allow ZM E controllers to see what it would potentially look like for them if they were to ever have to take over these sectors in a contingency event. Mr. Grider traveled to the WJHTC in Atlantic City throughout the month of July and August to work with second l evel engineering identifying the many limitations of ERAM communicating with STARS if the host ERAM facility is offline. He additionally worked with developers to design the scenarios for the CSD.