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To: Wally Mastroly who wrote (5431)	6/12/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) of 42834

Interesting link on Y2K and aviation. I think it's significant that the FAA Administrator said she would be boarding after midnight! In other words, she won't be in the air at midnight. A wise precaution, I'd say. Certainly the risk of unknown problems will be much less at 12:10 a.m. than it was 11:50 p.m. I was thinking that it might be fun to rent a plane on the night of 12/31/1999, assuming the weather was good enough to not require talking to Air Traffic Control, and of course it would have to be a plane with all mechanical flight controls (i.e., none of this fly-by-wire stuff), but then someone mentioned the power grid going out, and I thought better of it, as it may not be possible to land safely without runway lights. I wonder if there's going to be a full moon on that night? There are, it turns out, 13 airports in the U.S. which have the capability to operate equipment necessary for safety of flight independent of the commercial power grid, so that would provide a backup, but I hope there are no date-dependent microprocessors in those backup power systems!

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