African ATM Organization to Work with IATA on Aviation Improvements

The African air traffic management organization, ASECNA and IATA have agreed to work together on several aviation improvement projects including ADS-B and C (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast and contract).

ASECNA (L'Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar) manages 16.1 million square kilometers of airspace (1.5 times the size of Europe) that covers six FIRs (flight information regions): Antananarivo, Brazzaville, Dakar Oceanic and Terrestrial, Niamey and N'djamena.

IATA will assist ASECNA to educate regional governments on civil aviation requirements and promote technologies, such as ADS-B and C, which are compatible with civil aviation's global plans for these technologies.

In addition IATA and ASECNA will jointly press for aeronautical infrastructure policies that meet airspace user requirements including support for the development of AFI (Africa/Indian Ocean) Air Navigation Plan and the rationalization of the route structure and extension of air traffic control. ASECNA will also explore opportunities to set up a special infrastructure fund for necessary modernization projects there.

Efforts also will focus on training issues, including ways to help airlines, airport operators, civil aviation authorities and air navigation service providers,  to meet new ICAO requirements starting in January 2009, as well as English language proficiency training for air traffic controllers.  04-15-2008.

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