A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/977826
SCT and NCT to demote ADS - B in their sort cell priorities. Boeing released a Service Bu lletin to address the problem. United, American and many other s have confirmed completing the Service Bulletin allowing the m to be removed from the NSAL. Other B787 aircraft are slowly being pulled off of the NSAL as verification of the Service Bulletin is received by Flight Standards. Advanced IM A - IM Requirements documents completed. Paired Approach HITL i n April still being finalized. Still working on lateral limit tools to be displayed to controllers. Awaiting safety case requested by ALPA to prove controller need to know aircraft's set speed directly from the aircraft. NATCA's need for this information was expressed on the point that IM will place more aircraft in a more efficient and confined space resulting in less room for error. Monitoring speeds will need to be more exact and instant to ensure separation i s maintained. AIRS ConOps review started. Discussed keeping phraseology as standard as possible as all IM Programs evolve including AIRS. Currently exploring a "maintain present spacing" option for controllers and whether this option is feasible/needed in AIRS. ASDE - X Tech Refresh: If the Taxiway alert enhancement is deployed on a national scale, the PMO would need to take control. As of right now, SEA is the only facility scheduled to receive this enhancement. Discussions continue regarding parts obsolescence and what the best path is moving forward in addition to increasing bandwidth capacity as traffic levels increase in the NAS. ASDE3 radar discussions continue as the agency struggles to decide if they should go the tech refresh route, or full r eplacement route. No decisions have been made at this time. The agency is starting to align ASDE - X with ASSC on the software systems side. Although controllers will not yet have all the same functionalities on both systems, it will allow for impro ved sys tem performance and fine - tuning capability which controllers will benefit from. The goal in time is for both systems to be equal on the software and controller capability aspects. ASSC : Due to issues with the agencies internet security department, CVG IOC was pushed to April 5 . Field fam at CVG has continued with very positive input from the facility. MCI will be the next site on the ASSC waterfall. Coordination is underway with the facility. PIT outreach meetings sch eduled for the week of April 9 . PDX outreach meetings sche duled for the week of April 23 .