THE Ministry of Works and Transport has signed a N$175 million agreement for the installation of surveillance radar with the French company Thales.
Primary and secondary radar systems will be installed at the Hosea Kutako International Airport outside Windhoek. The primary radar is used to detect any aircraft or moving object in the air.
THE Ministry of Works and Transport has signed a N$175 million agreement for the installation of surveillance radar with the French company Thales.
Primary and secondary radar systems will be installed at the Hosea Kutako International Airport outside Windhoek. The primary radar is used to detect any aircraft or moving object in the air.
The secondary radar gets information from the aircraft like altitude and speed.
This information is combines and the air traffic controller sees all the information on a screen.
The WAM or Wide Area Multi Laterilisation System will be installed at 36 sites across the country. This system lets the air traffic controller see the location of planes throughout the country on his screen.
An Air Traffic Management System will also be installed at Hosea Kutako International, Eros Airport and Walvis Bay Airport.
These are the consoles and equipment that the air traffic controller sits in front of and which show him the information gathered by the radar systems.
Thales will also train local people and make use of the local August 26 company for some of the installation and maintenance work. The project will be completed in the next 15 months.
The same system is being used in South Africa, Angola, Sudan, Zambia, Nigeria, Australia, Thailand and Brazil, to name but a few.
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