Managing Airspace for Flight Safety Many Nigerians are anxious while travelling by air in the country. Their anxiety is occasioned by the number of air crashes, which experts have descri
Many Nigerians are anxious while travelling by air in the country. Their anxiety is occasioned by the number of air crashes, which experts have described as outrageous and tragic, considering the fact that Nigeria has relatively low air traffic. Chinedu Eze writes that government’s efforts to provide more equipment to further improve safety in the airspace should be encouraged
Many years ago, a cargo plane owned by Hydro Cargo was made to land on construction site on runway 18R at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. That was November 29 2003. The air traffic control asked the pilot of the aircraft to proceed and land, despite the fact that NOTAM indicated that the runway was closed for construction. The aircraft landed and was severely damaged.
“At the moment, we have done category two instrument landing system in over 10 airports. We have done on the domestic runway of Lagos 18L. We have done in Benin, two instrument landing systems are actually installed in Benin on both runways, even on runway 23.” Performance-based Navigation is said to redefines the aircraft’s required navigation capability from sensor based to performance based. The foundation for Performance Based Navigation is area navigation or RNAV.“We have done over 32 airports and that included all the federal airports, basically all the states airports. I think the only airport that we have not done this navigation in Nigeria will be Jalingo airport. That has to do with some issues of lack of survey for Jalingo airport in Taraba.
The concept of surveillance is to have a sensor that detects aircraft, calculates their position, obtains other data and then present it to the controller on a situation display. This is what TRACON, which was built 10 years ago does. It captures the aircraft in the air, provides other information and data needed.
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