Just heard this on the radio - WBT in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte-Douglas International airport. Sketchy details right now, but said it was due to a "computer glitch"..

Going surfin'....

R.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 28, 1999

Answers

Found this on their web site:

Airport Computer Problems

A computer glitch is causing delays today at Charlotte's airport and at airports up and down the East Coast. A glitch in an FAA computer in Atlanta is triggering the delays. Crews are working on the problem, but they say if you are planning to travel by air today, plan on big delays.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 28, 1999.

airports up and down the East Coast?

a glitch in FAA computers in Atlanta?

Sounds like the warnings from Big Blue are coming down hard on the FAA.

Gotta say thanks to IBM too. They tried, didn't they?

Mike ===================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), June 28, 1999.

Can't find anything on the news wires yet...will check back when I'm done painting.

Looks like Jane Garvey is having another "bad air" day...

R.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 28, 1999.

Need a little help here, folks.

Anyone find anything yet?

To the top (again).

R.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 28, 1999.

Dunno how to do that link thing you quick learners do, but it's at

http://www.wbtv.com/news/news.htm

Someday I'm gonna be spiffy, too.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), June 28, 1999.

It's the radar again.

From www.charlotte.com

Posted at 5:11 p.m. EDT Monday, June 28, 1999

Faulty radar delays flights

Radar problems in Atlanta combined with bad weather to make Monday a difficult day for airline passengers throughout the Southeast.

At 3 p.m. about a third of all US Airways flights at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport were reporting delays. Also, Delta Air Lines said that due to the radar problems and the temporary shutdown of two runways at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, many of its flights were delayed or cancelled Monday.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 28, 1999.

Weather? I'm not a metereologist by any stretch, but have travelled plenty in all sorts of weather (ah, memories of plummeting through a HUGE thunderstorm toward MPLS...). The current Doppler for SE US looks quite normal for this time of year: occasional thunderstorms, scattered rain, no biggie. Why should weather like this be any problem for these carriers?

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), June 28, 1999.

Hell even in the worst weather days they'll trolley that de-icing machine out and spritz yer jet fer ya!

I live about 15 miles from Hartsfield, scattered *rain, no thunderboomers. The rest of the southeast is also calm and reporting mild accumulations and scattered showers. Nothing to get in an uproar about. Right now at 6:25pm EST it's clear and 74F with a west wind at 5, hardly anything to cancel flights for.

Must be those whiz bang new compliant pieces of junk they are using now. Their mottos is they'll have nothing to fear from Y2K (because they have no intention of having any living passengers left by January 2000)

-- (atlanta@sucks.com), June 28, 1999.

Egad,

O'Hare & Minneapolis last week. I am detecting a pattern here.

If they're doing testing, why don't they tell anybody?

Or are they NOT testing?

Jolly

-- Jollyprez (jolly@prez.com), June 28, 1999.

Oh they're testing alright. And the flying public is the Guinea Pig! "Planes will not fall from the sky..."

... until they DO .... thanks to your ever-benevolent government, who OF COURSE will DENY any knowledge of it, until late in the 21st century when any statute of limitations has expired. ("National Security", don't ya know.)

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), June 28, 1999.

bw, Try this courtesy of Arnie Rimmer: The following instructions are for people who want to create an indented hotlink in a post to this forum. It's pretty simple to do but you must be able to follow these instructions precisely. This is not intended as a general purpose guide to using HTML (the 'language' of the web). If you simply copy and save the template below, then modify and paste it when you need it, you should be able to create hotlinks without too much trouble. Important: The example below uses the HTML paragraph tag ('

'). One quirk I've noticed about this forum - once you've used the paragraph tag once within a post, you must use the tag between all other paragraphs in your post or all of your paragraphs will run together. To include an indented hotlink, copy and save the template below:

XXX

When you paste this into a response, you will need to replace BOTH occurances of 'XXX' with the URL (i.e. the address) of the site you want to reference. For example, if you are are trying to point someone to Ed Yourdon's home page, the URL is 'http://www.yourdon.com/index.htm'. This means that, once complete, your inserted link will look like this in the response window:

http://www.yourdon.com/index.h tm

mb in NC

-- mb (mdbutler@coastalnet.com), June 28, 1999.

Boy, I should have seen that coming. I'll try to find Arnie's orginal post. How did he do that? Post how to make a hotlink without making the link hot?

-- mb (mdbutler@coastalnet.com), June 28, 1999.

Jane Garvey's team hits another home run!!!! She'll be flying Jan 1 if her flight's not delayed!

Posted at 6:44 p.m. EDT Monday, June 28, 1999 Email this story to a friend

Radar outage in Atlanta delay flights in Southeast By TED REED Staff Writer

A radar outage in the Federal Aviation Administration's Atlanta flight center combined with bad weather Monday to delay dozens of flights throughout the Southeast.

At 3 p.m., 30 US Airways flights -- about one third of the flights scheduled for takeoff from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport at that hour -- were reporting delays, frustrating hundreds of passengers.

``I was stuck on the runway for two hours and 45 minutes at LaGuardia,'' said Tony Graffeo, senior vice president of Empire Insurance Group in Brooklyn. ``Then I got here for my flight to Columbia, and now it's delayed.

``I'm hot, and I'm tired,'' Graffeo said. ``I don't see how radar in Atlanta can affect the whole East Coast. You'd think they'd have backup after backup after backup.''

An FAA spokeswoman did not return phone calls. George Robinette, deputy aviation director in Charlotte, said a computer malfunction caused the Atlanta flight center, which oversees Charlotte flights, to rely on a less capable backup system. As a result, air traffic controllers required more spacing between flights, causing delays.

Spokesmen for Delta Air Lines and US Airways, the two principal airlines serving the Southeast, both said the radar outage and thunderstorms resulted in an increased number of delays on Monday.

Because planes are tightly scheduled, the effect of delays reverberates throughout the system.

In addition, US Airways operations were slowed over the weekend and on Monday by a shortage of dispatchers. ``We're short-staffed, which is causing an impact,'' said Don Wright, president of Local 545 of the Transport Workers Union.

The dispatchers are in contract negotiations, but Wright said the union is not staging a work slowdown.

-- Jim Smith (cyberax@ix.netcom.com), June 28, 1999.

bw, it's easy! You already have the address:

http://www.wbtv.com/news/news.htm

In front of the address you will type < and then this:

a href="http://www.wbtv.com/news/news.htm"

After you type the quotation mark, then put >

I can't put the < in front, or the > after, or it will make a hotlink. There are NO spaces in the address except after the a.

After you have typed that part in, name your link anything you want. You can type in the word Link, or the name of the article, etc.

Finally, the last part. Type this (/a) except use the < and > instead of the ( and ). I will type the whole thing together if you want to print it out for use later, just remember to substitute < for ( and > for )

(a href="http://www.wbtv.com/news/news.htm") Link (/a)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), June 28, 1999.

Gayla,

Thanks, I'll try it next chance I get.

Even us old mainframe geeks like to learn new stuff!

-- bw (home@puget.sound), June 29, 1999.

Interesting, but what's this got to do with Y2K? Or is Y2K the "default" cause of every software problem in the world unless proven otherwise?? Regards,

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 29, 1999.