To enable Nigeria vaunt of state-of-the-art facilities at airports, the ongoing infrastructural renewal must continue. The aviation industry has achieved high level of safety in recent times, and air passengers have experienced peace of the mind within the period. In the last eight years of the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, there was no record of major […]
Despite the current efforts to improve navigational aids and safety in Nigeria’s airspace, flights are still disrupted by avoidable low visibility and pilots complain about poor communication at certain areas of the airspace. Recently Captain Constant BihinaKono landed his aircraft, a Boeing B737 NG at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to mark the […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has received approval from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to build multilateration technology system to monitor low flying aircraft in the littoral region of the country for security and safety purposes. Multilateration technology accurately locates low flying aircraft, many of which might not wish to be seen and it […]
Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Captain FolaAkinkuotu is of the view that Nigeria’s airspace is safer with the installation of new equipment. He also spoke on the need to monitor low flying airplanes in the South-east corridor of the country for security reasons. Navigation is a key issue in the Nigerian Airspace […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency will save about 12, 600, 000 litres of fuel for Nigerian airlines monthly if they will migrate to Performance Based Navigation (PBN). PBN is a navigational procedure that specifies aircraft required navigation performance (RNP) and area navigation (RNAV); it also provides clear guidance to the pilot in terms of accuracy, […]
