All federal and state government-owned airports in Nigeria have approach and landing navigational aids, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has clarified.
\nIt said Satellite Performance Based Navigation (SPBN) procedures that could enable aircraft operate at any time of the day into these airports were also in place.
\nThe acting Managing Director, NAMA, Matthew Pwajok, disclosed this at the 26th annual conference of the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents in Lagos, yesterday.
\nHe said the idea of tagging some airports in the country as \u2018sunrise\u2019 or \u2018sunset airports\u2019 was misplaced.
\nThis, he said, was because almost all airports in Nigeria had instrument landing facilities for approach and landing, which meant that they were operating based on Instrument Flight Rules.
\nPwajok said the airports were not operating based on Visual Flight Rules where pilots were required to visually approach and land within sunrise to sunset time.
\nThe NAMA boss said, \u201cApart from one or two private aerodromes, all federal and state government-owned airports managed by NAMA are equipped with Instrument Landing System.
\n\u201cThe exception is where they are temporarily unserviceable or the runway and approach lights are unserviceable, but nevertheless you cannot refer to them as sunrise or sunset airports.
\n\u201cApart from Owerri and Calabar where the agency is working to install Category II Instrument Landing Systems, and Jalingo that has no ILS for now, basically all airports in Nigeria have a minimum of CAT II ILS, most of which were installed brand new. So, there is nothing like obsolete navigational facilities.\u201d
\nPwajok stated that in a bid to tackle visibility issues in some airports during adverse weather, the agency commenced the implementation of Category III ILS in Abuja and Lagos airports, while those of Katsina, Kano and Port Harcourt were being installed and would be ready before the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All federal and state government-owned airports in Nigeria have approach and landing navigational aids, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has clarified. It said Satellite Performance Based Navigation (SPBN) procedures that could enable aircraft operate at any time of the day into these airports were also in place. The acting Managing Director, NAMA, Matthew Pwajok, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n