The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is no doubt living up to its vision of becoming one of the leading air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in the world with a mission that is steadily focused on the provision of safe, efficient and economic air navigation services to airspace users. To stay right on top of the global air navigation game, the Agency has been keying on a strategy that is premised upon unwavering reliance on the dedication of its highly competent workforce whilst leveraging innovative technologies. This strategic move has been ensuring the crystallization of a wide variety of organizational achievements, including the recent attainment of the status of a world-class provider of ground and flight inspection solutions.

With this, NAMA has secured an enviable niche in the global flight calibration arena as an aircraft flight calibration solutions provider of choice for continental Africa and beyond. With a full complement of the systems, equipment and human resources required to carry out ground and flight inspections to the standards specified in relevant ICAO SARPs and guidance materials, NAMA has no doubt become one of the leading providers of ground and flight inspection services in the world.

The Agency’s flight calibration portfolio currently boasts a sizeable number of competent flight and technical crew as well as a wholly-owned Beechcraft 350i twin-engine turbo prop aircraft equipped with the state-of-the-art Airfield Technology’s AT940 onboard console for flight calibration, complete with a ground-reference system or analyzer. The NAMA flight calibration department currently boasts a team made up of a four-man flight crew, two of whom are fully trained and checked-out, while the remaining two pilots are currently undergoing the relevant qualification and type-rating trainings. The aircraft maintenance team is made up of four competent and appropriately rated aircraft maintenance engineers, while the flight inspection technical team, headed by Engr. Selzing Miri, boasts 8 competent flight inspectors, five of whom are fully checked-out and rated at different levels, while three inspectors are currently under training. With this capability, NAMA is fully capable of handling the ground and flight calibration of navigational and communication systems at all levels and in line with international best practices.