Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) said on Sunday that?it had spent N360 million on World Geodetic Survey (WGS-84) of 22 airports and procedural design of four major airports in Nigeria.
Mr George Amadi, NAMA’s Acting General Manager, Business Development, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the ongoing 2012 Lagos International Trade Fair.
“With this NAMA has migrated from Terrestrial air navigation to satellite air navigation, otherwise known as Performance Based Navigation (PBN) at the four major airports.
“The four major airports are Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja International Airports,” he said.
Amadi said this was achieved after Emirate and KLM successfully conducted a test flight on the new approach procedure on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at Lagos and Kano International Airports.
He said that the operation of PBN would save cost for the Airlines as they would burn less fuel during take off and landing.
According to Amadi, it will also reduce carbon dioxide emission and Air traffic controller’s work load.
“With PBN, the agency has joined the countries that are already operating International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) endorsed air navigational programme.
Amadi said that with this development, NAMA has the capacity to collaborate and provide WGS-84 survey, PBN procedure design and cartography services to any organisation according to International Standards.
He said the agency expected the Airlines to reduce their air fares since they would be using less fuel. (NAN)