CAVERTON SIMULATOR Aviation

Caverton signs Factory Acceptance of Thales Reality H simulator, the first helicopter full flight simulator Level ‘D’ to be installed in Africa

Less than 1 year after the contract signature and before its departure to the Caverton Aviation Training Center in Nigeria, Caverton and Thales signed the Factory Acceptance of the AW139 Reality H Full-Flight Simulator in Cergy, France on Thursday the 27th of February, 2020 The Thales Reality H Full Flight Simulator level ‘D’, which is one […]

Ohunayo Aviation

ILS: WE ALL FAILED AND EMBARRASSED THE NATION

Olumide. O. Ohunayo The industry went into wild jubilation when the government announced in the last quarter of last year that it had purchased a new set of Instrument Landing System (ILS) CAT 3 to be precise for Lagos and Abuja airports respectively which was installed while the functional CAT 2 ILS in these airports […]

LAAC NCAT TRAINING Aviation

NCAA Commends Industry for Good Safety Record

The Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has commended the agency and the aviation industry for the air safety Nigeria has recoeded in the last five years with zero accident involving commercial airliner. Nuhu also hailed aviation correspondents for contributing through their write ups and broadcast for that feat […]

Akinkuotu Aviation

NAMA Inaugurates Navigational Aids in Lagos, Abuja Airports

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has commissioned its newly installed Category 3 Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Runway 18 Right, Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos as well as Runway 22 at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. NAMA also disclosed that a flight commissioning of the newly installed DVOR (Doppler Very High Frequency Omni-Directional […]

Sirika Aviation

How FG Disgraced Nigeria over Landing Equipment

In early February inclement weather occasioned by the harmattan haze exposed the poor navigational infrastructure at the nation’s busiest airport in Lagos and made Nigeria a laughing stock in the aviation world. Domestic airlines operators, aviation agency officials and others heaved a sigh of relief after mid-January, when the ferocity of the harmattan haze ebbed. […]