A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/924659
On Nov. 29-30, the Ops Team participated in a Post Release Demonstration (PRD). These PRDs are designed as a first look of the most recent TFDM system abilities. This PRD was focused on the Airport Resource Management (ARM) capabilities in Build 1 and is intended to be the building blocks for the full Surface Metering capabilities that will come wit Build 2. The program is on track to have the Build 2 Systems Requirements Review (SRR) sometime in January. This is a precursor to the Critical Design Review (CDR), which is currently scheduled in July. With these two meetings, the Ops Team will be able to take an aggressive look at the requirements and how we have designed the system so far and be able to make modifications where necessary. In late January, TFDM will have two members from the Terminal CHI team out to Washington, D.C. to have a two-day CHI meeting. This meeting will go over everything from possible strip colors, to alerts/notifications, to highlighting/watermark colors. The FAA has received the Final Course Design Guides (CDG) and will send them to Leidos/SAAB this week. The TFDM Ops Team has begun meetings with the Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) Ops Team to begin the Surface Situational Awareness (SSA) requirements review. TFDM has given money to TFMS to house the SSA within their system, as this tool will be more utilized at TRACONs and Centers. Once these requirements are finalized, TFMS will proceed to develop the tool in conjunction with the updating of their system. Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) The data elements for AEFS/ATD-2 have been finalized by Terminal Second Level Engineering (TSLE) and ANG (Testing) for finalization. The system engineers will now begin working the details of the modifications required of AEFS. CLT CLT experienced an outage where they were forced to go back to paper for about an hour. They have gotten the logs to TSLE and they are reviewing them in order to find the cause of the failure. One complaint that CLT has had recently is with the 32" monitors and their overall operating capabilities. We will continue to look into this, although we may need to procure different monitors in order to meet our needs. CLT has yet to set a firm date on upgrading to the latest 5.3.0.3 Drop 7, but they are slated to receive 5.4.0.0 in the spring of 2018. PHX Nothing new CLE Upgrade to the latest 5.3.0.3 Drop 7 is scheduled to be installed on the training server this week. Upgrade in the tower is currently planned for January 16-18, with support of TSLE and the TFDM Ops Team.