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A 5 page research paper that examines and compares the air traffic control systems of the US and Nigeria, in that Nigeria is part of the overall problem of insufficient ATC systems for African airspace. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: KE9_99atc.rtf
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Specifically, each of these countries needs ?urgently?to update their system of Air Traffic Control (ATC) before there are tragic consequences. However, in both Nigeria and the United States, it appears
that solutions to improve this problem have yet to come up with satisfactory results. Many experts in the field are saying that the FAAs efforts to "modernize" US ATC equipment
has turned out to be a "ludicrous sham" (Boyd NA). In the first six months of 1999, ATC equipment failures have caused delays or flight cancellations to escalate by 34%
(Boyd NA). In Africa, even though Nigerian officials promised to update their system in 1997, two years later in December of 1999, they were still promising that upgrades would be
forthcoming. There has been rising concern over air safety in the vast majority of Africa for a number of years. In 1997, these concerns reached the point where several
major European carriers indicated their support of an initiative proposed by South Africa Airways to boycott certain ATC systems if the countries involved did not upgrade their technology (Makings 20).
According to the Airline Pilots Association of South Africa, there were 77 near-misses over Africa in December, 1996 and January, 1997 (Makings 20).
According to statistics provided by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations in 1997, theres a dangerous air traffic conflict in African airspace once every three days on
average (Ott 45). While air traffic over Africa has increased 120%, IFALPA officials say that the infrastructure in many African nations has either remained the same or has deteriorated
(Ott 45). The majority of the airspace north of Zimbabwe is uncontrolled, as it has extremely little radar and no VHF radio coverage (Ott 45). Due to this lack of
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