SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SURVEY – TRAINING
The FAA over the next year will be reviewing many aspects of air traffic training,
including proficiency and skill enhancement training. One goal is to identify training
topics that may need to be updated, while investigating new and more effective methods
in program delivery. Your participation in completing the linked survey conducted by the
FAA's Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Performance will assist
them in identifying the topics and delivery methods to be examined.
NATCA recommends participation in this survey.
Click here to start the survey. Participation is completely anonymous.
SURVEY – IFR/VFR CONFLICTS
ATO's Safety and Technical Training group (AJI) has been asked to assess the
effectiveness of awareness campaign materials related to IFR/VFR conflicts. The
purpose of this survey is to gather opinions on how IFR and VFR traffic is handled at
your facility. The goal at this time is to gather baseline information on the current culture,
attitudes, and behaviors related to managing potential IFR/VFR conflicts. The plan is to
provide a follow-up survey in about a year, to assess changes in attitudes or behavior
related to IFR/VFR conflicts.
This IVF/VFR Conflict Attitudes survey is voluntary and all responses are anonymous.
No identifiable information is included in this survey. NATCA has recommended
participation in this survey. Please click this link to take the survey:
http://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/bmp5mY
NATCA Safety & Tech Update
Week of Dec. 25, 2017
FLOW EVALUATION TEAM (FET)
Tony Smith (DCC) is the Article 114 Representative to the Flow Evaluation Team (FET)
for Collaborative Decision Making (CDM). His report is below.
The CDM/FET subgroup did not have our scheduled December meeting because of
budget constraints limiting travel. We did, however, hold two telcons (Dec. 6 and 20) to
discuss the progress of our assigned tasking of identifying classes of scenarios and
benefits with submitting Trajectory Option Sets (TOS) and the benefits of additional
Mexican Routings to help in SWAP scenarios. The International Office at the Command
Center is the lead in working on the Mexican Routings.
Starting after the first of the year, we hope to resume work on the use of the Airborne
Reroute (ABRR) and Pre-Departure Reroute (PDRR) capabilities when they come on-
line at more Centers. We will hold a telcon in January to stay updated on projects in the
works now. Our next scheduled face-to-face meeting is in February. We are also
expected to participate in a Human in the Loop (HITL) testing of the Integrated
Departure Management (IDM) tool with NASA. That testing is being planned for March
20-21, 2018.
