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National Office Week in Review: March 21, 2018

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• The full services Data Comm use case has a requirement that would display a unique route line when a route clearance is uplinked from the R or RA positions. The team discussed this function and decided that it was not needed. ER 186705 Data Com /U Key Behavior The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement. Its desired behavior is to add a space after the adapted Data Comm /U command. This fix will be delivered in EAE110 to support Data Comm training. ER 179415 Add indication of Sat-Comm Equipage to data block The problem statement was completed and the desired behavior is to provide an FDB and ACL indication for a particular aircraft if J5 or J7 is filed in ICAO field 10a. This issue has been assigned to the CHI team to continue development. ER 180253 GPD Changes The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement, its desired behavior is to add a new filter to the GPD to display NRS fixes and NRS fixes labels, as an option, to reduce clutter. ER 186329 Full Runway Lengths The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement; its desired behavior is display Emergency Airport Runway Length data to the exact foot when the AI command is used. ER 184910 R-Side Notification for Channel Change The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement; its desired behavior is to provide text in the Message Composition Area View (MCA) when a sector is operating on the Backup Channel. HUMAN PERFORMANCE Jay Barrett (MIA) is the Article 114 Representative for Human Performance. His report is below: Human Factors Activities N90 We are tentatively scheduled to begin the training standards training on April 9. We have been assembling the training materials and modifying the delivery from lessons learned at F11. Deployment of the Training Standards We are working on a plan to roll out the TRACON training standards to the other 26 TRACONs. This is a rather resource intensive undertaking and if our current team of five is required to do it, it will take about two years. The problem is the teaching/learning HF components of this training need to be delivered in person as well as the introduction and discussion of using the new standards. This is absolutely not something that can be delivered via ELMS or memo. We continue to work the issue with AJI-2. HF priorities

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