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To: bigg e who wrote (12832)	11/12/1997 2:04:00 AM
From: Mark L.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18263

Maybe you're right about the East Coast, but you're not right about the West. I've flown into LA twice with SOCAL radar outages of significant duration. Sure, things slowed a bit, and there were definitely some unexpected gate holds and in-the-air holds, but air traffic most emphatically did not grind to a halt. And, if a Y2K problem caused things to get really congested, the FAA could always give emergency authority to Part 121 operators to fly VFR under the flight levels--radical but possible. I'm not saying it's a great solution, but with Mode S it's probably a hell of a lot less critical than firing all the controllers the way Reagan did--when there were only modest delays and no accidents.