Paper-Pushing Flight Controllers See Future in Canada's System
- U.S. debate to privitize air-traffic control spotlights Canada
- NAV CANADA's software guides the skies over nine countries
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There’s an unusual quiet in Canada’s 41 air-traffic towers.
There is none of the loud clacking of controllers stacking plastic containers holding paper strips -- a flight-tracking relic dating to the early days of aviation and still in use in the U.S. and elsewhere. Instead, computer screens glow silently.