Akinkuotu Aviation

Controllers Call for Human Capital Development

Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) have said the major reason why there is inefficiency in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is due to the paucity of technical personnel, insisting that the parastatal has failed to adequately train the core staff of the organisation over the years. The controllers expressed fear that the widening training gaps […]

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. […]

Akinkuotu Aviation

Why Calibration of Navigational Aids was Delayed

When the federal government acquired aircraft for the calibration of navigational facilities last August at $8.5 million, the industry was jubilant. With that development, many stakeholders said the issue of contracting the job of calibration to ASECNA, aeronautical company of French-speaking West African nations, would now come to an end. But after the acquisition nothing […]