Ahead of the yuletide, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has commenced a routine calibration of navigational facilities in 24 airports across the country.
When completed in two weeks’ time, the calibration exercise which is targeted at putting all navigational aids in optimal capacity would ensure that the facilities generate precise and accurate signals to guarantee the safety of air navigation in the country.
Also to be calibrated and commissioned are the newly installed Instrument Landing System/Distance Measuring Equipment (ILS/DME) facilities in Lagos and Port Harcourt airports.
The Agency has therefore reassured the flying public of the safety of the nation’s airspace insisting that all necessary measures were in place to ensure safe, efficient and seamless flight operations in Nigeria.
The agency had earlier rebuffed an allegation of an imminent massive flight delays and cancellations during the yuletide due to obsolete navigational facilities at airports nationwide.
While describing the allegation as erroneous and misleading especially when viewed against ongoing efforts by the agency in the area of infrastructure upgrade across major airports in Nigeria, the Chief Executive of NAMA, Captain Fola Akinkuotu said there was the need to put things in proper perspective as the insinuations were capable of sending the wrong signals to “our teeming airspace users as well as the flying public.”
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