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We are still working with ZBW to get them started and will hopefully have everything ready for them by the end of th e year. TI ME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM. His report to the membership is below. Members of the TBFM National Ops Team travel led to New York the weeks of Oct. 30 and Nov. 6 to conduct IDAC tra ining/support. Ops team members trained at ZNY for both weeks while training was also conducted at each of the t owers. The first week JFK, EWR, and HPN were trained on the IDST, which is the tool that is used to schedule aircraft into the IDAC TBFM system. The second week LGA, TEB, and PHL were trained on the system as well. Each facility was very accommodating and overall there was positive reaction to the training. The plan moving forward is to have a follow - up refresher at the Center and offer t owers t he availability to schedule aircraft in test situations in lead up to the proposed Operation date of Dec. 5. Ops Team members will travel again to ZNY to help support this effort at the end of November/early December. The week of Nov. 13, Ops Team membe rs travelled to New York TRACON to discuss TBFM usage and future support. Overall it was a very positive visit that covered a number of topics that N90 was interested in. First, an adaptation was delivered to N90 that would allow them to see the releases t hat EDC TBFM at ZNY is making as well as seeing these releases on a view only IDST. This was identified previously as something that the TRACON wanted so we were able to bring these displays up and explain further how to interpret the information that they were looking at on the EDC and IDST timelines. Secondly, Ops team members observed their arrival systems and recommendations were made for future 'TBFM Healthcheck' meetings to look at their adaptations. The same week of 11/13 there was a TSAS meeting i n Denver that TBFM Ops team members attended. The following information is from Tom Glaze (D21) who leads the TSAS work for the Ops Team: Day 1 consisted of 2 ½ hours of work with the D01 SME s on TRACON interior route adaptation. During this process it wa s identified that there will need to be further discussions between D01 and ZDV about what constitutes metering. Later, work was done with the P50 SMEs on their remaining route adaptations and contract adaptors watched to learn how the process has been acc omplished. Day 2 was a continuation of both facilities, D01 and P50, working on route adaptation. The TBFM Ops Team was able to attend via telcon the TSAS SE work group meeting while the other teams were doing adaptation. Day 3 a smaller group , includin g myself and most of the adapters , arrived at the TRACON early to watch the morning arrival bank. After watching the bank, several mor e hours were spent with the SME s finalizing the routes. The adapters finished with their work later in the day.