Western Pacific Region (NWP)

From left to right: Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert, National Legislative Committee (NLC) Chair Steve Weidner, Western Pacific Region Representative to the NLC Trisha Pesiri-Dybvik, and President Paul Rinaldi. Santa Barbara ATCT (SBA) member Trisha Pesiri-Dybvik […]

(Aug. 10, 2018) Joel Ortiz was elected July 31 as NATCA’s Western Pacific Regional Vice President. His three-year term begins on Sept. 1, 2018. He takes over for Ham Ghaffari, who served four terms since 2006. […]

Recently, NATCA members at San Diego/Lindbergh ATCT (SAN) hosted students for a facility tour during the third annual San Diego Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals’ (OBAP) Aviation Career Education (ACE) Academy Aviation Career Education camp. The […]

On April 27, the Western Pacific chapter of the National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NHCFAE) helped introduce more than 1,200 students to careers in aviation, especially Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) positions in aviation safety […]

NATCA National Legislative Committee Western Pacific Region Chair Trisha Pesiri-Dybvik, and her husband, Jed Dybvik, are controllers at Santa Barbara ATCT/TRACON (SBA). On Dec. 4, 2017, wildfires broke out in Southern California. The Thomas Fire was […]

The Western Service Area (WSA) ES celebrated National Engineers’ Week in the Los Angeles Regional Office on Tuesday, February 20. To quote from the web site of the National Society of Professional Engineers, “Founded by NSPE […]