A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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Mr. Grider spent the next two weeks at the WJHTC in New Jersey working with second level engineering to develop TTL scenarios and ERAM configuration for the continuity of service demo in September. The ATOC group is de veloping a how to guide on developing operational contingency plans in all major facilities. They are specifically looking at the viability of having controllers in a neighboring center being able to work minimal traffic through airspace that has been ster ilized after an ATC - 0 event. There are many challenges that will have to be overcome for this type of plan to ever be implemented. ATOC has secured 10 SMEs from D10, ZFW, and ZME to participate in a large - scale demo in ZME's TTL lab scheduled for Sept . 1 2th and 13th 2017. The group is planning on verifying the ability to provide surveillance and communication to aircraft that are within the lateral boundaries of ZFW on a ZME scope. Some of the things that the group is trying to validate are : 1) What type of ERAM adaptation is necessary to provide track control of aircraft not wit hin the host facilities AOR; 2) Which radios, RADARs, and land lines will be needed at ZME to affectively work traffic to and from the ZME boundaries to the major airports within Z FW ; 3) How much traffic an individual controller who has not been trained or certified on a sector can safely handle ; 4) What rules and regulations will have to be amended or added to allow controllers to work airspace they are not certified on ; 5 ) What sh ould the training requirements for this type of operation look like? Work on the BCP is moving forward with a 23 - sector demo coming up on Sept . 19th. This demo will show what is involved to combine multiple labs at the Tech Center to eventually have 40 sco pes available to controllers in a long - term contingency event. NATCA has requested an A rticle 7 briefing from the agency on their plans for moving personnel from their home facility to the WJHTC to be available to control traffic from that location. NATC A will be working collaboratively with the agen cy to insure that all NATCA BUE s ' rights are protected in the event the BCP is activated, or anytime a controller is needed to work at a facility that is away from their home facility. AUTOMATED TERMINAL PROX IMITY ALERT (ATPA) Mike Sanders (SCT) represents the membership as the Article 114 Representative for ATP A. Mr. Sander's report is below: We are in current development for controller training in an ELMS course projected to be complete and ready for distri bution mid December. At this point if any facility has a desire to adapt ATPA, we need to wait until the ELMS training is complete. Please contact me so we can go over the process. Mike Sanders SoCal TRACON National ATPA Lead laxapproach@icloud.com 913.904.6937 DATACOMM Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 11 4 Representative for DataComm. Below is his update: