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NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of January 8, 2018 ATO OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY GROUP (ATOC) Jason Grider (ZFW) is the Article 114 Representative for NATCA. Also, included in Mr. Grider's duties is Article 114 representation for the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Mr. Grider's report for this month is below. Mr. Grider spent most of December at FAA headquarters and the Command Center working with the ATOC team to develop a guidebook for the development of ARTCC contingency plans. The intent of this guidebook is to provide a step-by-step instruction manual for building OCP's that can be implemented during a facility ATC-0 event. Mr. Grider also met with members from AJI to begin discussions on what training requirements and needs will have to be addressed to allow for controllers to safely implement contingency plans. AJI was very helpful and has agreed to work collaboratively with NATCA to design new training programs and requirements to allow controllers at support facilities to work air traffic in divested airspace. The workgroup plans to get together in January to define all of the requirements. Mr. Grider along with other members of the ATOC team met with members of the oceanic contingency workgroup to help define the scope of the work needed to build OCP's for an outage in oceanic airspace. The group has agreed to meet sometime in January to continue this work. AUTOMATED TERMINAL PROXIMITY ALERT (ATPA) Mike Sanders (SCT) represents the membership as the Article 114 Representative for ATPA. Mr. Sander's report is below. We are in current development for controller training in an ELMS course that was projected to be completed in December 2017. There was a decision to pause the eLMS course development in December to preview existing CBI/Instructor lead training provided by Raytheon to determine if it was adequate and covered all objectives. It has now been decided to continue completion of the eLMS course, which I support entirely. Completion and fielded projection March 2018. I will be working to see how to modify certain content in the Raytheon product to bring it up to our (NATCA) standards as well. Any facility that would like to turn ATPA on, please contact me so we can go over adaptation options. That way when the ELMS/CBI training is completed your facility will be ready. DATACOMM Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 114 Representative for DataComm. Below is his update. Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) sites are now sending over 40,000 clearances a week. These clearances deliver a benefit to flying public as well as controllers and pilots. CPDLC is used by 12 U.S. carriers, 40 international carriers, and over 100 business aviation users. There are 56 different types of aircraft that use CPDLC.

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