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What's New on FAASafety.gov - 0907
In Brief
What It Addresses
1. An error on the page that lists the Airman Award programs has been corrected.
From the Document: selected source passages, quoted as written, for a quick overview.
What’s New on FAASafety.gov
Added July 6, 2009
Of Interest to General Users
1. An error on the page that lists the Airman Award programs has been corrected. The links now point to the correct pages.
2. An incorrect link on your My Courses page has been corrected.
Miscellaneous typos and other editorial corrections were made.
A registration problem with users who have non‐US ZIP codes has been corrected.
The FAASTeam News links on the home page were black, making them really hard to read. They are now white and easy to read.
6. An option has been implemented so that AMTs can make one annual entry and enter their annual training summary instead of having to manually enter each training course they took.
7. The Aviation Resources page has been re‐designed and greatly enhanced with additional content. In addition, a new major category, Resources by Type of Operation, has been added. Content will be added to this new major category as quickly as we can. In addition, a Training and Testing Scenarios page is included. This page will include training and testing scenarios developed by Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Again, content will be added as quickly as we can after this new feature is launched.
Of Interest to Representatives and FAASTeam Program Managers
1. Mechanics with Inspection Authorization (IA) are now reported correctly when you use the Geographic Statistics Tool.
2. A discrepancy between the number of Instructors reported in the Geographic Statistics Tool and in the Validation Tool has been reviewed and an error was corrected. However, here is an important observation: We discovered that the Geo Stats Tool looks at the ZIP code in all geographic cases. For example, if you select a particular District [not a ZIP code and radius], say EA65, and a user is working and living there, but whose official FAA address is in Oklahoma, the system will not select that user in an email or mailing to EA65. The Geo Stats Tool has apparently worked this way from the beginning.
All FAASTeam Program Managers (FPMs) in a Region now have the ability to review and either approve or return a SPANS events created by any Representative in any District in that Region. The default view will show only those SPANS events in your District; you simply check a box to see all the events in your Region that need reviewed. FPMs will have to coordinate their efforts to eliminate potential conflicts. (This feature was promised at the National Meeting in St. Louis.)
4. The minimum number of post cards for a SPANS event has been reduced from 200 to 100 (at no additional cost to the Regional budget). This will benefit those in rural or sparsely populated areas. Remember, though, that the US Post Office (USPO) still requires 400 post cards in order to mail a batch. Our Post Card contractor holds completed small jobs until other jobs are submitted and completed to meet the USPO minimum. Normally this is not a problem, but a mailing could be delayed while waiting for another job to meet the USPO minimum. (This feature was promised at the National Meeting in St. Louis.)
5. The “User Type” selection in the Geo Stats Tool was not working properly; it is now. In addition, some CSV file exports were not reporting the correct number of selections. These reports have been fixed.
Speed issues when creating a SPANS event by a Rep have been resolved.
An error when returning a Notice has been fixed.
Source: Federal Aviation Administration — www.faasafety.gov. Reproduced from the published record; FlightPush adds formatting only.
Author: Bryan Neville
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