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#NATCACFS 2022 activities began with a welcome from NATCA National Safety Committee Chair Chrissy Padgett and a keynote address from NATCA Executive Vice President Andrew LeBovidge. Today’s agenda offers more opportunities to learn and grow as NATCA members participate in thought-provoking panels on the critical challenges we face as aviation safety professionals and keynote speakers who will share their inspiring stories and expertise.
On a blustery winter day in January 2022, N3039L, a Socata Tobago, was inbound for Manassas Airport (HEF), with snow actively falling and winds roaring. The aircraft began to lose altitude. NATCA member Eric Lomascolo was working radar at Potomac Consolidated TRACON (PCT), and attempted to get the pilot on the ground as soon as possible, but the aircraft overshot the localizer. This made Eric and his brother David, also a PCT member, aware that the pilot needed assistance. An emergency was declared on the pilot's behalf. The brothers utilized their weather awareness to set the pilot up for a second and then a third approach, as the pilot reported, “I’m getting bounced all over the place sir, very violently.”
Read the full story of this save, for which Eastern Regional Vice President Brian Shallenberger presented David and Eric with the 2022 Archie League Medal of Safety Award for the Eastern Region at #NATCACFS.
www.natca.org/eastern-region-david-lomascolo-eric-lomasco...
Former NATCA Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert moderated a panel titled “Synthesizing the NAS: Aviation’s New Frontier and Our Existing System” on the #NATCACFS 2022 main stage, discussing modernization of the global air traffic control system. The discussion included Airlines for America (A4A) Air Traffic Management and Operations Vice President Andy Cebula, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute Director Parimal Kopardekar, NATCA National Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Article 114 Representative Jimmy Smith, and FAA Director of Operations Planning and Integration Wendy O’Connor.