Instrument Landing System (ILS) AIRSPACE

Yuletide: NAMA Decries Inadequate Landing Aids as Operators Fear Harmattan Induced Flight Disruption

As Nigerian airlines prepare for increased air passenger traffic during the Christmas holidays, which is the busiest season in the year, they have expressed the fear of massive flight disruptions due to the inclement harmattan weather. This is as the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), acknowledged that many airports in the country have not been […]

Aviation

Enhancing Aeronautical Services in Nigeria’s Airspace

There is no doubt that the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has contributed immensely in safe flight operation in Nigeria. Industry observers say the federal government has shown a lot of commitment in the continuous investment in the agency, ensuring that it upgrades its facilities and equipment to meet the critical changes in aviation development […]

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 […]

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. […]