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This is pretty cool.
September 10, 2012[/FONT]
[FONT="]FAA Commemorates 9/11 with NextGen arrival profiles into National Airport[/FONT]
[FONT="]No one who was working at the Department of Transportation 11 years ago [/FONT]
[FONT="]will forget the morning of September 11, 2001. Whether it was the Federal [/FONT]
[FONT="]Aviation Administration's air traffic controllers, who helped bring every [/FONT]
[FONT="]aircraft in U.S. (insert periods) airspace safely to ground, or the U.S. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Merchant Marine Academy's midshipmen, who went into the chaos of Lower [/FONT]
[FONT="]Manhattan to support the maritime evacuation of Wall Street workers, 9/11 [/FONT]
[FONT="]is permanently etched into the Department's memory.[/FONT]
[FONT="]To commemorate that day, the FAA's Washington Metroplex Team has named two [/FONT]
[FONT="]arrival sequences to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to honor [/FONT]
[FONT="]those who died that day and those who have served our country from that [/FONT]
[FONT="]day forward. Each arrival sequence, FRDMM (Freedom) and TRUPS (Troops), is [/FONT]
[FONT="]part of our new NextGen descents, which use satellite-based information to [/FONT]
[FONT="]make more efficient arrivals and departures at airports. The sequences [/FONT]
[FONT="]contain a series of five-letter waypoints – points in the sky through [/FONT]
[FONT="]which an aircraft must fly to remain on course – and together, they spell [/FONT]
[FONT="]out messages of support and remembrance for 9/11. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Aircraft flying the Freedom route to National from the northwest pass [/FONT]
[FONT="]through waypoints named “WEEEE,” “WLLLL,” “NEVVR,” “FORGT” and “SEP11.” [/FONT]
[FONT="]Those flying the Troops route from the southwest pass through waypoints [/FONT]
[FONT="]named “USAAY,” “WEEDU,” “SUPRT,” “OOURR” and “TRUPS.” Depending on the [/FONT]
[FONT="]runway configuration, aircraft might also pass through waypoints named [/FONT]
[FONT="]“STAND” and “TOGETHER” or “LETZZ,” “RLLLL,” “VCTRY” and “HEROO."[/FONT]
[FONT="] This not the first time a waypoint has been designated to recall 9/11. A [/FONT]
[FONT="]waypoint published last year over Shanksville, Pa., was named “GARDN” [/FONT]
[FONT="](Guardian) in honor of United Flight 93, which crashed after passengers [/FONT]
[FONT="]fought with hijackers for control of the plane and prevented it from [/FONT]
[FONT="]reaching Washington, D.C. [/FONT]
[FONT="]The men and women of America's airways were also deeply affected by the [/FONT]
[FONT="]events of September 11, and airline pilots and crews have responded [/FONT]
[FONT="]strongly to these new waypoints. Recently, for example, on a morning [/FONT]
[FONT="]flight from Detroit to Reagan National, a Delta Air Lines pilot came over [/FONT]
[FONT="]the Public Address system and began sharing the story of the new arrival [/FONT]
[FONT="]procedure with his passengers. As the flight crew began their precision [/FONT]
[FONT="]descent into the capital area, the pilot read aloud the names of the [/FONT]
[FONT="]waypoints they would be passing through prior to arrival: HONNR, BRVRY, [/FONT]
[FONT="]COURG; MORLL PLDGE: WEEEE WLLLL NEVER FORGT SEP11, ALWYZ FRDMM.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"As he was reading them," reported one passenger, "the people were all [/FONT]
[FONT="]quiet, and we all stopped talking or reading or whatever else we were [/FONT]
[FONT="]doing. Everyone just listened. We could hear the pilot starting to get [/FONT]
[FONT="]choked up as he talked about how proud he was to read those points off as [/FONT]
[FONT="]we entered DC."[/FONT]
[FONT="]The FAA’s Metroplex initiative is creating satellite-based procedures to [/FONT]
[FONT="]transform our national airspace system, making it more flexible and [/FONT]
[FONT="]decreasing our carbon footprint. NextGen flight tracks, like the [/FONT]
[FONT="]procedures commemorating 9/11, will relieve bottlenecks, improve safety [/FONT]
[FONT="]and efficiency, and foster the flow of commerce. NextGen will deliver more [/FONT]
[FONT="]on-time and fuel-efficient flights, and continue to ensure that our system [/FONT]
[FONT="]remains the safest air transportation system in the world.[/FONT]
[FONT="]These descents are also powerful proof that we at DOT remember 9/11 365 [/FONT]
[FONT="]days a year.[/FONT]
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http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/09/faa-commemorates-911-with-nextgen-arrival-profiles-into-national-airport-.html#.UE5bVUKrVUQ[/FONT]
[FONT="]Doug Church[/FONT]
[FONT="]Director of Communications[/FONT]
[FONT="]National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)[/FONT]
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Checking out the full arrival routes I found some other new waypoints with meaning- RANJR, JARHD and PJAAE. There is also supposed to be SEALZ. The VCTRY waypoint doesn't exist yet either.[/FONT]
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http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1209/00443TRUPS_C.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1209/00443TRUPS.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1209/00443FRDMM.PDF
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1209/00443FRDMM_C.PDF
Map from an article written a year ago.
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