A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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ERAM S ector E nhancement The ERAM National User Team (NUT) took on the task of prioritizing sector enhancement. A series of three meeting s w ere held to brief the NUT on the concepts for sector enhancement and how to use the scorecards to rank score those enhancements. The NUT returned all scorecards by August 17th. The score cards where summarized to provide a NATCA score to the overall process of sec tor enhancement prio ritization. I would like to say thank you to the NUT for taking the time to complete this process. QWERTY W e are finalizing the plan to test these keyboards. Interval Management (IM) The IM workgroup will c ontinue its work in September. Spectrum Freque ncy The agency i s updating an order dated 1980. The order outlines the requirements for frequency installation and back up requirements. Jon Shedden has been representing NATCA on this project. Aircraft Types The CAR addressing aircra ft types is an ongoi ng process. NATCA and the agency have meet several times in August on this specific issue. The meetings have uncovered the need to finalize an order to compile a national database for aircraft types and prevent erroneous types to be used in the NAS along w it h robust training to the field. Other solutions are being discussed but need to be investigated further prior to releasing. Airspace Tec hnical Demonstration - 3 (ATD - 3) I attended a briefing by NASA in Fort Worth, T exas. ATD - 3 brings three concepts Multi Flight Common Route (MFCR), Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Request (TASAR), and Dynamic Routes fo r Arrivals and Weather (DRAW). NASA will be giving NATCA national an in dept h briefing in October on ATD - 3. I will report more after that briefing. Offshore Precipitation Capability (OPC) AJV - 7 is wait ing word from the PMO on cost. The information and a path forward should be soon coming. HUMAN PERFORMANCE Jay Barrett (MIA) is the Article 114 Representative for Human Pe rformance. His report is below: Human Factors Activities F11 (TRACON Certification Standards) — We have completed training all of the OJTIs, Trainees, FLMs , and SAIC instructors at F11. They currently have begun using the standards during OJT. We have had some technical issues with electronic checklists, but overall the training concepts and process ha ve been very well received by everyone at the facility. The controllers overwhelming agree that we have needed this approach to training for a very long time. It will take a month or so to get som e legitimate feedback on the difficulties implementing the process. We expect some growing pains and issues going forward, but remain very optimistic.