The state of Nigerian airspace infrastructure has raised a lot of concerns among aviation stakeholders.
It wasn’t as if the country’s airspace was not safe, so many issues like inadequate navigation equipment, and poor radio communication among others raise concerns about how difficult pilots communicate with air traffic controllers.
The careful planning by the Ministry of Aviation and NAMA to change the narrative of bad news as it affects the country’s airspace safety had seen a massive investment of over N32 billion and another $12.9 million to overhaul the airspace architecture by the last administration. While so much was achieved, there are so many investments NAMA is expected to carry out to reposition Nigeria’s airspace infrastructure and make it safer.
At NAMA, the agency made some strides. In the area of communication, the agency had a few challenges. Over time the airspace is increasing because of growth in traffic and the air routes are many and they cut across the nation because there are more connections between various airports, as new airports are coming up.
The incumbent NAMA MD, Alhaji Umar Ahmed Farouk has carried on seamlessly and breaking new ground with the planned provision of modern and seamless navigation safety tools. The newly appointed managing director of NAMA, Farouk has decided to take pre-emptive preemptive steps to upgrade most of the equipment.
There is also the Doppler Very High Omni-directional Range equipment that guides aircraft in very difficult circumstances. Even in hazy weather, they guide aircraft in their approach and landing. He promised to immediately fix the communication problem and also declared an emergency in power supply, as NAMA’s installations are expected to provide 24-hour service to ensure that aircraft flew safely in Nigeria’s airspace.
Due to errors inherent in the GPS constellations, the raw navigation signal from the satellites was not accurate enough to provide precision approaches. The satellite errors were due to various factors, including SA which was a deliberate introduction of errors to downgrade the quality of signals. However, these approaches he said are non-precision approaches as the accuracies do not meet up to precision categories, hinting that the RNAV provides only lateral guidance with no vertical guidance signals. It then still means that the ground-based navigational aids provide better accuracies.
While there is a remarkable improvement in air traffic management in the country with installed facilities, however, the agency is urged not to rest on its oars to ensure that there is consistent improvement in the country’s airspace surveillance.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities. Your username will be shown to the moderator, so you should only flag this comment for one of the reasons listed above.
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