NAMA Begins Calibration of Navigational Equipment @ Airports

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has commenced calibration of navigational equipment at some airports across the country to enhance air safety.

Calibration is flight checking of air navigation equipment located around the airport and on the airside for efficiency.

The exercise 26 airports across the country being handled by ASECNA, a Dakar based Calibration firm cost NAMA about N200 million annually.

 The routine calibration exercise , according to Mr Supo Atobatele, general manager , public affairs  NAMA ,  commenced at the State owned Birni Kebbi airport where newly installed Doppler   Very High Omni -directional Radio Range (DVOR), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and Instrument Landing System (ILS) were commissioned.

Atobatele said  routine  checks on VOR/DME equipment at Sokoto, Jos and Abuja are to be carried out by the technical team including the Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) of the Abuja and Kaduna airports. The glide slope of Kaduna will be re-checked as well.

Similarly, the newly installed Conventional VOR /DME at Enugu airport will be commissioned while the VOR/DME at Owerri and ILS/DME at Ilorin are for routine check.

Engineer Mazi Nnamdi  Udoh, managing director of the Agency said in Lagos on Tuesday that  the calibration of the navaids would assist in putting all the navigational aids in proper shape at these airports.