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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1941)5/31/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: John Mansfield   of 9818
 
[FAA]

'
Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> wrote in article
<3570dc7f.28221510@news.calgary.telusplanet.net>...

> From Bud Hamilton
>
> TONY!!! This is the problem I have been talking about for a year. My
> worst fears/ warnings may be being realized.
>
> ** We are in serious trouble if STARS fails** Especially if the FAA
> predicted 30-50% traffic slowdown assumed STARS would be working,
> which now appears to be the case. Remember the TRACON is where I hung
> out for months. The TRACON is the heart of the air traffic control
> system. We can't fly into major cities without it.
>
> It is a travesty that FAA didn't require STARS to be y2k compliant.
>
> Plan on serious air traffic slowdown.

I think rush deployment of STARS is a clear indication that the FAA is
getting desperate.

Harlan
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From: "Harlan Smith" <hwsmith.nowhere@cris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
Subject: Re: - FAA rushing installation of STARS Tracon system
Date: 31 May 1998 14:17:04 EDT
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