Kano and the Cobra's!!
I operate regular flights into Kano and on approach tend to get very
about the Airforce training jets in the airport vicinity, they call themselves COBRA!
It kind of gets on your nerves when you hear the controler trying to reach them asking for their position and they are not responding, and even when they do their radios are quite inaudible. The controlers say they are kept in a training area well clear of commercial traffic arriving Kano, but with no radar in Kano and the Cobra operating without Transponders and the jet handled by a cadet student pilot!!!! I tend to take things quite
on approach and on alert duty all the way in!
I believe the COBRA jets should operate somewhere else and not in the vicinity of an airport like Kano airport with no Radar and the visibility terribly poor. After the Nigerian Airways and Cobra Jet incident some years ago I thought things would change in Kano!