New subject: Why you won't fly on 1/1/00

4 Jan 1999

<From: Don Maslin &lt;donm(a)cts.com&gt;

<There was a piece in the Travel section of our paper today - a reprint
<from the New York Times News Service headlined "Y2K could slow air
<traffic, but airplanes won't fall, experts say".

<ovens, sprinkler timers, etc.  Am I dense?  I have at least one each of
<the above (not including fire trucks) and no one of them has the
<foggiest notion what year it is!  Because of the firmware, some few care
<what day it is, but to the best of my knowledge there are seven days in
<a week irrespective what year it is, or even the month.

Generally those articles are bogus.  The flight computers care not what day 
it is.  The nav equipment will work though there is a remote risk that the 
data bases for moving map sysems could go out of date (they update many 
times per year).  Last I looked I've never seen an airport move.  My 
Cessna will continue to fly unimpeded

<It would really be nice if the thoughts and opinions of truly knowledgeabl
<folks were to be published and all of this type of panic mongering put
<firmly to bed!

That's exactly what it is panic mongering and total lack of knowledge of 
that y2k is.

Allison

Y2K stuff