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Old 22nd November 2003 | 01:35
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Africa is still Africa for the most part.

Remote VHF antenaes would improve things by at least 100%

Radars another 100%

Keeping all ATC comm English another 100%

-I had a near miss in Senegal decending into Dakar. Air France 747 insisted on reporting his position on climb out using French. Confused the hell out of ATC. Gotta love the TCAS.

Morocco - RVSM
Canaria - RVSM
Libya - HF, Short range VHF, No radar (at least not the kind that guides airplanes
Egypt - Long range VHF, Radar
Burundi - HF, short range VHF, No radar
Congo, DRC - HF, short range VHF, No radar
Uganda - HF, Medium range VHF, No radar
Senegal - Long range VHF, No radar

Use of navigational aid is iffy at most. Unrealiable ILS, VOR etc. Thank god for GPS. Coming out of Europe, weather report stops at North Africa. Most place will report "nil"

Flying in Africa is still pretty much a Black Art, especially trying to put an L1011 into some remote airports.