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TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representa tive for TBFM. His report to the membership is below. TBFM National Ops Team was at ZID the week of 9/5 following up on k ey site a ctivities for the re lease of TBFM 4.7 o the field. Previously k ey sites were just held at one facility, but due to the addition of IDAC it has become necessary to test upgrades at facilit ies w here I DAC is being utilized as well. ZID was very helpful in this effort and during this visit the Ops Team was able to verify the correct application of EDCT s in the IDST system. Additional members of the Ops team traveled to ZID to train mid - shift cont rollers on TBFM in support of the upcoming Adjacent C enter Metering activity to MEM. In m id - October ZME will be utilizing Adjacent Center Metering adaptation to have their adjacent Centers mee t metering delay times to MEM. This has been a project that has been in development for some time and the Ops team has assisted in initial development all the way through testing and training at adjacent facilities. TBFM Ops Team Co - Leads attended a meeting at Eastern Region Headquarters with representatives from ZN Y, N90, and a number of the New York area t owers to discuss EDC implementation and work that is being done for eventual IDAC implementation as well. The majority of the TBFM Ops team was at ZNY supporting the initial operational testing and utiliz ation of EDC the week of 9/11. The testing of the En route Departure Capability went well as this system was used to schedule departures ou t of the New York area to ATL. This EDC component required the t owers to call for release, but will eventually be the basis that IDAC will work off of so that t owers will be able to schedule departures directly into the TBFM system. Tom Glaze (D21) has been heading up TSAS development for NATCA. With a number of other Ops Team personnel, he attended an adaptation development m eet ing at P50 in support of TSAS. This meeting was to help develop very accurate routing in TBFM/TSAS for future testing of TSAS. The week of 9/18 was the second week of operational testing and utilization of EDC at ZNY. The flows that EDC were utilizing were expanded to include departures to AT L, but also CLT, ORD, and DTW. The EDC adaptation seemed to work very well and for any changes the Ops Team was able to work with Local FAST to make adjustments. The success of this effort was in no small part due t o the overall collaboration and hard work by many NATCA representatives in the New York Area. The TBFM Ops Team will continue to work on supporting this effort and the eventual utilization of IDAC. TBFM Co - Leads presented at a customer forum at Southwest H eadquarters in Dallas on 9/19. Also in attendance was NATCA P MO Representative Jeff Woods. The presentation was made to most of the major airline Air Traffic Representatives and included an overview of the TBFM system and the activities that the TBFM Ops Team has been working on as well as future projects.