A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/883404
TERMIN AL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Article 1 14 Representative for TFDM. Mr. Baugh's update is below. Meetings have begun with NASA and the FAA regarding the prototype surface metering tool, Airspace Technology Demonstration - 2 (ATD - 2) whose Art. 114 Rep is Pete Slattery (CLT), and TFDM. These meetings revolve around the information that is being shared, and how, between ATD - 2 and TFDM ' s prototype Advance d Electronic Flight Strip (AEFS) system. The lessons learned over the next four years before a full TFDM system will be brought to CLT would help us reduce risk and exploit efficiencies in an accelerated timeline. Work will begin in October for Build 2, wh ich is primarily made up of surface metering capabilities. The first steps of this process, like with Build 1 and the electronic flight strips, will be a requirements overview with the vendor, Leidos. During that process, we will ensure our original requ irements meet our current needs. We visited PHX this week for a TFDM early site visit, where we met with local management and NATCA reps to go over a broad implementation schedule and overview of where the system is today in development. Once we have mo re of a finalized system we will meet again to go over transition plans and to ensure PHX, as the key site, is ready f or training and implementation. Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) We are still in the process of finalizing the enhancements and t esting timeline s for 5.4.0.0, the next build. The plan is to have the build ready for tech center testing in late November and ready for field - testing in early January. CLT An additional patch build has been implemented over the last 10 - 15 days, and has been working in CLT, fixing an adaptation parameter in ERAM. This adaptation was causing additional flight strips to be printed in A80 in one scenario, and aircraft types to be removed from AEFS in CLT strips in certain situations. PHX Nothing new CLE N othing new LAS Nothing new SFO Nothing new EWR Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) Nothing new.