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FAA 7110.65, 5-7-1 c and d, which states; c. At the time approach clearance is issued previously issued speed adjustments must be restated if required, and d. Approach clearances cancel any previously assigned speed adjustment. Pilots are expected to make their own speed adjustments to complete the approach unless the adjustments are restated. Industry believes this will standardize the situation because it meets what all their pilots have been trained to performed but would require all controllers to receive training because it completely different than how we have been trained. This issue was not resolved during our November 2017 or February 2018 meeting and we will continue to discuss it at our next meeting. 4. Approach Clearance Confusion – Received a briefing from Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA,), Allied Pilots Association (APA), National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA), and NATCA on recent events that have generated a great deal of interest and concern with certain approach clearances where altitudes below the procedure and Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA). 5. En Route Transition Assignments – Received a briefing from AJV-8 about developing guidance for assigning changes to En Route Transitions on STARS (Not to be confused with Runway Transitions). 6. KSNA SID and A-RNP Issues – Received a briefing from Gary McMullin (SWA) about the new procedures, which led to many pilots within the room being confused regarding the PBN requirements needed to fly the procedure. The big difference with A-RNP is the requirement to use RNP-1 instead of RNAV-1, however the requirements for both are the same, but many pilots have been led to believe RNP is only Authorization Required (AR) procedures, which is not true. I believe many more discussion will continue on this topic. 7. PARC Tasking- Visual Separation While Established on Published Procedures. 8. Phraseology Harmonization in North America – Received a briefing from Brian Townsend (AAL) along with an update on the implementation of Climb Via and descend VIA in Australia. This led to a discussion about coming up with a plan to harmonize the phraseology within North America and use that plan to reopen the issue with ICAO for global changes. Many more meetings and discussions will be required. Our next face-to-face meeting will occur at ALPA, located in Herndon, Va. on April 30 and May 1. PARC NAV WG The PARC NAV WG held its first quarterly meeting of the year on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in Phoenix where we discussed the following: 1. RNP AR 50 second Rule Action Review - Mike Cramer (MITRE) reviewed the status of this action after the January virtual meeting, noting that there was concern about allowing reduction of the 50 seconds to zero as part of standard criteria and the concern as if the 500' above Landing Threshold Point (LTP) minimum Final Rollout Point (FROP) still is needed. There was extensive discussion about both topics, with a briefing from AFS showing comparison between the 15-second prior to Decision Altitude (DA) and the 500' above LTP requirements. Basically the 500' will come into play in low elevation

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