STORY:
Canada's Air Traffic Y2K OK

According to a report by Edmonton Journal,some of the uncertainty about flying into the dawn of the new millennium has been removed within Canada. The article says Nav Canada, the non-profit corporation that runs the country's air traffic control system, announced that recent tests of the radar and tracking system for Western Canada at Edmonton International Airport passed with flying colors

Nav Canada says the clocks were rolled ahead to Jan. 1, 2000, from Dec. 31, 1999, and nothing happened. Because the systems are virtually identical in the seven control centers across Canada, it means that the country's main air traffic control system is Y2K-compatible, although there are still tests to be done on new equipment in Toronto.

While the test at Edmonton was done during the wee hours of the morning using simulated flights, the clocks were rolled ahead in Vancouver over two days while the airport was operating and everything went smoothly. Although Nav Canada can't speak for other countries, it says there is a smooth connection with the control systems over airspace of United States, United Kingdom and Iceland, and all these countries have tested each other's systems.

Source: Edmonton Journal

DATE: 3/30/99

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