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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of February 26, 2018 AIRPORT CAPACITY DECISION SUPPORT TOOL (ADEST) Kristen Laubach represents the membership as the Article 114 Representative for ADEST. Her report is below. Long term funding for Airport Capacity Decision Support Tool (ADEST) is currently not available so ADEST will remain status quo for now. The team continues to monitor the program and reports when something doesn't appear to be working correctly. The Spacing Efficiency (SE) aspect of ADEST was briefly discussed. There is talk of eliminating this section of ADEST all together but a final decision hasn't been made as of yet. AIRSPACE Jim Davis (PCT) is the National Airspace Representative for NATCA. Below are reports from the various airspace team leads and Mr. Davis. Las Vegas Metroplex The Las Vegas Metroplex has been "paused" since the end of October. We have not been allowed to meet with our Design Team since then. However, my FAA co-lead and I have been trying to keep our project issues highlighted to the program office and FAA Vice Presidents in charge of our budgetary issues. We were given word that our project can now move forward with design meetings. When we left off in October we had completed design on three of the four corner posts. Our plan is to resume design work the week of March 19. We will be working on the Southeast corner into Las Vegas. We will be inviting ZDV and ZAB to join us with this design effort. We have also identified a potential issue in this corner with routes over the Grand Canyon. Brad and I have already reached out to Park Service and plan to brief them in the next few weeks. Once we get started in March we should be able to complete our design work in about five or six weeks. I will continue to update on our progress as we get going. Submitted by Chris Thomas Las Vegas Metroplex NATCA Co-Lead Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation The core team, along with ZOB POCs, were in DTW last week to meet with the Delta Tech Pilot Stewart Kenny. The objective of this meeting was to provide a project update to Delta, review the updated phased implementation plan, and do a final review of the DTW FIGs. Prior to the start of the meeting with Stewart, Ron and I had arranged a discussion/telcon with the D21 ATM/Rep, along with the DTW DM and the Program office. The purpose was to ensure that everyone was in support of the newly proposed phased implementation plan, and that while we would continue to work on both TBFM/Trips, the status of these two issues would not change the 9/13 implementation date. D21 has expressed concern over impact on airport efficiency levels if we implement without either TBFM or Trips. They now understand the reasons behind the 9/13 implementation date. The meeting with Delta took place after our local meeting and Stewart turned the focus

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