Niamey has a radar with quite a good coverage. They just won't tell you they got it.
Quite a contradiction in terms. either they give you an SSR code and say afterwards " radar identified " or they do not say anything. If they do not say anything ( as I suspect) it means they cannot use the radar you say they have for surveillance and separation purposes.
My information is that Niger has no civil radar operations ( just like Sudan at the moment)
On another subject ; if communications are as bad as you say they are, how is this compatible with current RVSM operations ? We were told that exept for RDC and Angola everyone else in the AFI region had 2-way reliable (upgraded) comms. Are the comments being voiced here recent ( i.e. in the last weeks ) or BOAC VC10 era ?
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