WAKE TURBULENCE
John Murdock (PHL) is the Article 114 Representative to the Wake Turbulence Office for
NATCA. His update for the week is below.
RECAT Monthly Update, March 2018
SAT and PHX initial meetings where canceled and SAT was rescheduled for April 5.
PHX initial meeting has not been rescheduled at this time. DTW/D21 is concluding
workforce training in the next two weeks and will go IOC on March 27 and 28.
SAT should be the last facility to implement Wake RECAT. Every facility going forward,
that is currently identified to implement Wake RECAT, should implement the
Consolidated Wake Turbulence (CWT) separation standard.
The CWT separation standard eliminates the majority of the negative effects of Wake
RECAT. We will begin implementing CWT at facilities on the waterfall for Wake RECAT
once the order is signed. The SMS is almost completed for the CWT and the SMRD
should be finalized in the coming weeks.
The number of implementations will increase in the second half of 2018. Six facilities are
identified to implement by the end of 2018 and two in 2019. Once all facilities that are
identified for Wake RECAT have implemented the goal is to implement CWT NAS wide
and incorporate it into the 7100.65.
