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A Realtor!!!

The sky isn't falling, And neither will Y2K flights, says Realtor

By Allison Landa Inman News Features

Will planes fall out of the air as a result of the new millennium and computer failures?

Realtor and Y2K de-bunker Charles Reuben is taking to the skies on New Year's Eve, along with the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, to prove his faith that flight will stay just as smooth.

Reuben will join FAA chief Jane Garvey on a flight across the U.S. timed to coincide with the Greenwich Mean Time Y2K rollover. Garvey's flight embarks from New York City and will fly west through four time zones, landing in San Francisco. Reuben will hop aboard at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport.

"For me, it's a flight to nowhere," he wrote in an e-mail to Inman News Features. "I'm doing it to back up my statements that Y2K problems have mostly been addressed."

Some fear the advent of the year 2000 because of a computer-programming tradition -- using two numbers to define the year. There has been concern that the rollover from 1999 to 2000 will be misread as 1900, sending automated systems back to the Victorian Era.

But, like Reuben, White House Y2K specialist John Koskinen will board a plane on New Year's Eve to prove the readiness of U.S. aviation systems.

FAA chief Garvey avowed this readiness a year and a half ago at a June 1998 address before the International Air Transport Association.

"Aviation safety will not be compromised on that day, or on any other day," Garvey told the group. "I have made clear to the FAA's senior managers that the Y2K effort was to be provided the people and resources needed to solve this problem."

That meant renovating 163 of the FAA's 430 "mission-critical" systems, plus retiring or replacing 70 and reworking an additional eleven. The agency spent an estimated $191.7 million on its Y2K effort.

And Reuben plans to survey the results in person and in the skies as the calendar turns over to 2000.

"I'm going because Garvey, in effect, is saying, 'We fixed the systems and I'm willing to bet my life that everything will be fine,'" he wrote. "I agree."

-- (dot@dot.dot), December 29, 1999

Answers

Wow, cpr gets mentioned in the same breath as Kosky and Plane Jane. Now isn't that special. I'll bet his Momma is real proud!

-- (fly@fly.away!), December 29, 1999.

It can't be the beloved cpr... There's no SHOUTING in the quotes! Doesn't fit his m o...

-- Forum Regular (Here@y2k.comx), December 29, 1999.

cpr is a zit on the face of the Real Estate industry. Good riddence.

-- Charli (claypool@bellatlantic.net), December 29, 1999.

"There has been concern that the rollover from 1999 to 2000 will be misread as 1900, sending automated systems back to the Victorian Era."

Who would have predicted that, only hours before the cursed event, the media would STILL be explaining to clueless imbiciles what y2k is?

Anyway, if you predicted that, you were right.

-- We are still (surrounded@by.idiots), December 29, 1999.


You wanna know if it's safe to fly over Y2K, ASK A REALTOR?

Somebody's gonna get what they deserve!

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), December 29, 1999.



Awwww...they didn't get it right. Shouldn't it be "unemployed" realtor, who took a 2-year sabbatical so that he could devote his life full-time to launching ad hominem attacks IN ALL CAPS, while building an offshore database of internet poster's names for delivery to the FBI? LOL! LOL!

-- (TrollPatrol@sheesh.now), December 29, 1999.

"If you wanted to know if it was safe to fly, who would you ask?"

Ummmm...i dunno...a duck during hunting season?

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), December 29, 1999.


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