Training:NAMA Sends 24 Technical, Operational Staff Abroad

The Nigerian Air
space Management Agency (NAMA) says 24 staff members were abroad for operational and technical training on Controller-Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) service.
The weekly bulletin of the Public Affairs Department of NAMA published recently in Abuja, said that the first batch of 12 staff comprising six air traffic controllers(ATCs) and six air traffic engineers(ATEs) had departed for Paris and Germany for the training.
According to the bulletin, the team will undergo a 10-day operational and technical training on the CPDLC facility.
It said that another set of 12 staff comprising six ATCs and six engineers had joined them on Wednesday for the same purpose.
“Meanwhile, a successful airport hub implementation test for CPDLC linking the airport hub to SITA hub through fibre and radio was carried out last week,’’ it said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CPDLC is a method by which air traffic controllers can communicate with pilots over a data link system.
The CPDLC application provides air-ground data communication like a set of clearance, information and request message elements which correspond to voice phraseology employed by ATC procedures.
The standard method of communication between an air traffic controller and a pilot is voice radio, using either VHF bands for line-of-sight communication or HF bands for long-distance communication.