The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has reiterated its commitment to the implementation of the Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) system toward improving safety in civil aviation.
NAMA’s Managing Director, Fola Akinkuotu, made this known when he spoke at the 2017 World Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) Day in Lagos on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the day has the theme: “Efficient Data Management System that Supports Digital Aeronautical Information Services.”
Akinkuotu said that his administration would accelerate the digitisation of AIS in view of critical deliverables of the AIM project such as the enhancement of e-NOTAM, e-Flight Planning, e-AIP, e-TOD, e-Charts, e-Flight briefing.
“The automation project is a must do for NAMA because it represents a global migration to a dynamic data oriented aeronautical information management system.
“The project will facilitates the timely exchange of aeronautical information in an accurate and standardised format from anywhere to everywhere globally on real time basis,” he said.
Akinkuotu said that for the dream of AIS automation to be realised, it behoved staff of the department to put in their best to see that their service both at the individual and group level remained invaluable.
He said that they could do this through extensive research and paper presentation at seminars targeted at enriching the system and taking it to the next level.
Akinkuotu promised to open his doors to their professional and technical advice, which he said would give him the needed guidance in taking key decisions.
The NAMA boss also lauded staff of the AIS department for their diligence, hard work and dedication to duty.
“AIS remains one of the most critical departments in the agency even though they are hardly given the prominence they deserve because their job most often is behind-the-scene,” he said.
Akinkuotu stressed that the absence of AIS in the system would bring about chaos in the entire civil aviation.
In his welcome address, the NAMA’s General Manager, AIS, Mr Kabir Gusau, appealed to the management to consider the periodic training and retraining of AIS personnel to boost their capacity.
“The training will bring staff up to speed with modern trends in a dynamic aviation industry and also prepare them to effectively embrace automation when fully deployed,” he said.
Gusau also harped on the need for the agency through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), to ensure that qualified AIS personnel were licensed as this would bolster them toward hard work, commitment to duty and enhanced productivity.
NAN reports that the World AIS Day is observed in 191 contracting states globally.
It is a day providers of the service, regulatory authorities, service users, other aviation stakeholders and AIS systems manufacturers, critically assess the performance of the service.
They also recommend appropriate measures for its enhancement.
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