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NATCA Proudly Announces the Winners of the
14th Annual Archie League Medal of Safety Awards!
The
Archie League Medal of Safety Awards selection panel, including NATCA Director of Safety and Technology Jim Ullmann; Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Jack Pelton; and Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA) Aviation Safety Chairman Capt. Steve Jangelis met at the NATCA National Office on June 4. They discussed all nominations for flight assist events that took place from Jan. 1, 2017, through April 30, 2018, and made their selections for each of the nine regions. And the winners are:
Alaskan Region
Scott T. Eastepp (Anchorage Center, ZAN)
Central Region
Josh Giles
(Kansas City Center, ZKC)
Eastern Region
Jeffrey Haberland and Tim Krainak
(Clarksburg ATCT, CKB)
Great Lakes Region
Daniel Rak
(Indianapolis Center, ZID)
New England Region
Jesse Belleau
(Boston TRACON, A90)
Northwest Mountain Region
Christopher Bancroft and Jacques Mailloux
(Broomfield Jefferson County ATCT, BJC)
Jeffrey Rawson
(Salt Lake City ATCT, SLC)
Southern Region
Joshua Hall, Patrick Allen Johnson, Jeremiah Lee, Darren P. Tumelson, William T. Vaughn III, and Andrew John White
(Memphis Center, ZME)
Southwest Region
Phil Enis, Thomas Herd, and Hugh Hunton
(Fort Worth Center, ZFW)
Western Pacific Region
Benjamin Kingston
(San Francisco ATCT, SFO)
Scott Allen
(Tucson ATCT, TUS)
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The FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) Safety and Technical Training Human Performance Team has launched a nationwide survey for all air traffic controllers and operational supervisors. The goal of the survey is to gather information from air traffic control facilities on the current culture regarding the issuance of Traffic Advisories and Safety Alerts. NATCA has vetted and recommends participation in this survey. The survey supports the Top 5 Traffic Advisory/Safety Alert Corrective Action Plan (CAP). The purview of the Top 5 issue is only aircraft-to-aircraft conflicts. As such, the FAA is not focusing on other possible conflict alerts such as minimum safe altitude warnings or low altitude alerts.
The survey is anonymous, voluntary, and is to be conducted on employee's duty time.
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NATCA Members Honored for Successful Team Effort With FAA to Realign K90 into A90
Several NATCA members from the New England Region, who worked on the successful realignment of Cape TRACON (K90) into Boston TRACON (A90), were honored this week with the Teamwork Award at the New England Regional Administrator's Awards Program. Additionally, one of those members, Jonathan Stanton (Engineers New England, ENE), was honored with the Program Excellence Employee of the Year Award. Read more
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Celebrate Pride Month and show your solidarity with LGBTQ Union brothers and sisters by purchasing this new NATCA shirt.
The purchase price of each shirt includes a $10 donation to the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people. For the first 100 shirts sold, the NATCA Charitable Foundation plans to match this $10 donation from each shirt purchase with an additional $10 donation to the Trevor Project.
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Aviation Day at CAE Introduces Kids to ATC Careers
Last month, local NATCA members spent a day showing children from Orangeburg, S.C., a behind-the-scenes look at air traffic control operations at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE).
More than a dozen children from third to eighth grade got an up-close tour of the airport's runways, learned how to drive a jet bridge, saw how controllers at CAE work to keep operations in the National Airspace System safe, and more.
"It was really great to see the collaborative relationship between NATCA and the FAA come into play here to allow for these children, none of whom have ever even been in an airplane, to see what we do and just how much pride our CAE members take in their jobs," CAE FacRep Matt Trimble said.
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Upcoming FAA Job Bids for ATC: June 19 for N90 and June 27 for All-Sources
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be posting two announcements for controller applicants in the upcoming weeks. The first is an N90 local commuting area no experience (Track 1) announcement to be assigned to New York TRACON (N90). That will be open on June 19, 2018, for eight days closing on June 25, 2018. Then on June 27, 2018, and lasting for six days closing on July 1, 2018, will be an all-sources announcement for no experience applicants (Track 1) for nationwide hiring.
"Thanks to NATCA's advocacy, there was a change in the law allowing us to post an announcement to hire applicants with no experience within a local commuting area," FAA Acting Administrator Dan Elwell said during remarks at NATCA in Washington on May 21.
Stay tuned to NATCA's social media outlets for more information once the job announcements are posted.
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NATCA Benefits: Lenovo Offers Special June Savings
Celebrate your Dad and grad with cool technologies from Lenovo. The perfect gadgets and gifts up to 33 percent off, while supplies last.
Remember, these special monthly offers are customized for you. Shop with confidence, and enjoy great savings through our Lenovo Savings Program. Whether for work, home or gifts, you'll receive: FREE shipping on all web orders, warranty service upgrades, convenient payment options, and award-winning service.
Offer valid June 11-18.
Throughout the month, Lenovo has the fast, smooth processing you need to get things done. Use your members-only deals and find out why different is better. Select items on sale through June 30.
Call: 800-426-7235, ext. 7192 (M-F: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. EDT, Sat: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT)
NATCA Benefits: Penn State World Campus
The Penn State World Campus/NATCA alliance provides our Union members with in-state tuition rates, a five percent tuition discount, and college credit for completion of a certified NATCA Academy course(s).
NATCA members can also help a family member realize their dreams of pursuing a college education. This benefit extends to spouses, domestic partners, and children. The participating family member will receive all the same benefits as our members in the program.
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NATCA members are excited as they approach operational opening of a state-of-the art air traffic control tower at the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ). The new 139-foot-tall tower will replace a facility that has served SRQ since 1986 and represents not only a significant investment in the future of local aviation, but a collaboration success story for NATCA members at the facility.
"We listened to what was most important to the controllers and their biggest concerns," SRQ member Michelle Kitchen said. "We then took those concerns to the head engineer, and he was very accommodating. In fact he told me he loved that we knew what we wanted and how we wanted it." Read more
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NATCA Family Members in Need
On June 3, Daytona Beach ATCT (DAB) member Tim McGuire unexpectedly died in his sleep. McGuire leaves behind his wife of three months, Lindsay, as well as his ex-wife and their two young daughters. Tim was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and had been a NATCA member since 2008. Family and friends are raising money to help during this difficult time.
Command Center (DCC) member Gino Siller passed away after a long battle with an autoimmune disease that attacked his lungs. He had just turned 36 and leaves behind a wife and two young daughters. Siller was a Union activist and was dedicated to his crafts - piloting, filmmaking and, especially, air traffic control. He made
this video featuring controllers at his former facility, Denver Center (ZDV).
Please consider a donation to help his family in this difficult time.
Donate here
Washington Center (ZDC) member
Matt Zobel's wife Casey gave birth to their daughter Kayden through an emergency C-section last month. Heartbreakingly, Kayden passed away the next day. Family members and friends are raising funds to help with unplanned medical expenses, funeral expenses, and other hardships in this difficult time.
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New NATCAvist's NiW First Impression: 'WOW!"
NATCA in Washington (NiW) last month was Albuquerque Center (ZAB) member Hershul Olloway's first time at NATCA's annual lobbying event - and also his first time meeting with members of Congress or their staff.
"My first overall impression was 'WOW!' You could feel the passion from each NATCA member there," Olloway said.
Was NATCA in Washington 2018 your first time advocating for your brothers and sisters in our nation's capital? We want to share your story! Email Meagan Roper at
mroper@natcadc.org or call/text 202-445-1775 to share.
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SoCal Facilities Successfully Implement STAYY Departure
Congratulations to the SoCal Metroplex Team and members at Southern California TRACON (SCT), Orange County ATCT (SNA), and Los Angeles Center (ZLA) on a successful implementation of the STAYY departure in April. It is the first of its kind in the country. The team showed professionalism, hard work, and dedication to aviation safety.
The STAYY is the first RNP-1 RF SID (Required Navigation Performance, radius-to-fix, Standard Instrument Departure) to be placed and used in the U.S. This implementation makes for a more precise route.
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Houston Hobby ATCT (HOU) Member Teresa A Pavljuk is one of the 2018 semi-finalists for Ms. Veteran America, a non-traditional pageant offered to all female veterans to help raise awareness and to support Final Salute Inc. (FSI), a charity dedicated to providing homeless women veterans with shelter, clothing, education, and independence.
"Raising money and awareness for Final Salute is of utmost importance," Pavljuk said. "It is my goal to fundraise and share the important work of FSI to my community. It only takes $25 to provide a woman veteran and her children with safe and suitable housing."
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Earlier this spring, Memphis Center FacRep Neil Caputo and Alternate Southern Regional Vice President Jason Arnold (pictured at right) represented the NATCA Charitable Foundation in presenting a check to Extreme SEAL Adventures.
Caputo and Arnold drove to the wilderness location on Maryland's Eastern Shore where Extreme SEAL Adventures brings wounded warriors and their families to enjoy the great outdoors. Extreme SEAL Adventures founders Don and Diane Shipley call their property "Warrior's Rest." Read more
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Father's Day: Celebrate the Dad in Your Life By Sharing Photos
Join NATCA this Father's Day (June 17) in celebrating the dads in our NATCA family whose dedication to their families and to the flying public are unmatched. Honor the dad in your life by sharing your photos with us at
dads@natca.net and be featured in the next NATCA Insider (June 22) and in our
Father's Day photo album.
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FAA WorkLife: Concierge Services
These days more than ever, employees are looking for ways to keep pace with the increasing demands on their work and personal time. Convenience or Concierge services can assist even the most organized person with some of life's more time consuming tasks. The Concierge Services program can help you find the resources you need for a wide variety of services. Resources are checked at the time of each referral to make sure that they are valid and that services are available within a reasonable time.
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