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D.C. Operators Face New Procedures with NextGen
New departure and arrival procedures, along with airspace changes, are designed to produce millions in savings.

FAA’s Potomac Tracon has been implementing 57 new operational procedures and 14 complex airspace changes as it rolls out NextGen in the Washington, D.C. area, FAA air traffic controller and Potomac Tracon safety representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association Brandon Miller told attendees at last week’s Greater Washington Business Aviation Association Safety Standdown. The changes are designed to optimize some of the most complex airspace in the nation that includes a half-dozen area airports, a flight-free zone, special-flight-rules area and layers of traffic bound to the Northeast, Miller said.


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