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Old 2nd June 2006 | 16:54
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Heli-Jet
 
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ASECNA should consider spending money on ATC

When you consider ASECNA is the responsible ATC authority in West Africa. Their service is expensive and at the best of times pathetic. Take a look at their website http://www.ais-asecna.org to see what you get. Then speak to the operators and see who even subscribes to them as the operating authority, or even has their manual on base and if they do are they up to date.

In EG their ATC controllers don't even know how to use the correct RT for a hold, I think it is because of the the Russian's being a bunch of cowboys in the airspace, and ATC not knowing how to handle them.
Secondly, the training of ATC by ASECNA is pathetic. If you look at Doualla, Libreville and Malabo. the best of the 3 is a close tie between FKKD and FOOL.

Libreville(FOOL) has weather Radar, no computers for filing flight plans or paying landing fees. ILS vailable

Doualla(FKKD) doesn't have Wx radar, no computers as above, ILS available

Malabo, has nothing, ILS available. Comms pathetic if you fly from Bata or Libreville to Malabo, their repeater station gets struck by lightning or the generator runs out of diesel. If you don't have a GPS forget trying to get to Potob, you can only pickup the VOR signal 26nm from Malabo as well as ATC

So the question begs, where is all the money being spent by ASECNA ?????
EG could fix their problem very quickly by getting rid of ASECNA and get a 1st world ATC unit to set them up quickly and properly if they want to be accepted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation - follow Angola's example
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