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Nigeria’s airspace safety got a major boost as the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has tried out a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS).
The agency on Wednesday successfully carried out a flight demonstration to improve on the accuracy, integrity, and availability of the signal through augmentation of the satellite systems with its $8.5 million Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft.
The SBAS is used to enhance the accuracy and precision of an existing GPS system.
GPS by itself is not accurate enough to do things like support the landing of airplanes or other applications where there is a need for high accuracy combined with high consequences for failure. It then means using satellite systems for air navigation.
The airlines are also able to save costs through fuel burns as the system has the capacity of reducing flight time on some routes within Nigeria by up to 5-7 minutes.
