Category Archives: At work

ATC Global Excellence Awards 2013

Posted on 8 January, 2013 by Anders

Today I was informed that: the Namibia Directorate of Civil Aviation has been shortlisted for the Introduction of Surveillance Control in Namibia project in the “Excellence in ANSP Management (outside Europe and North America)” category for the ATC Global Excellence Awards 2013. the  ICAO/TCB … Continue reading →

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Last day at work for Johan

Posted on 21 December, 2012 by Anders

A quiet day at Eros today. It’s soon Christmas, most Namibians are on leave, on their way to the coast for lower temperatures or up north to family. Next to Sarafina on Approach is one lonely Swede on his last … Continue reading →

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Early morning Ondangwa

Posted on 20 December, 2012 by Anders

Thursday morning was an early one. I had to be at Eros airport at 6… I was offered to join the crew of an Air Namibia Embraer E135. Checklist reading, passenger boarding and Namibia 164 is ready for taxi. Cleared … Continue reading →

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Year End

Posted on 8 December, 2012 by Anders

Last week the schools ended and this week was the last week of work for many. Life in Namibia tend to go down to a slow pace during December and the first half of January. The year end was marked … Continue reading →

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DCA instructors training continues

Posted on 3 December, 2012 by Anders

This week Mr. Ben Engelbrecht is the instructor… …and he is giving training to Mr. Harold Hange and Mr. George Kizza… …who will after this week be able to provide training in the handling of the Eurocat-X. Me and Johan … Continue reading →

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Farewell Mr. Ben

Posted on 1 December, 2012 by Anders

In 1979 me and Bengt-Inge started our military training and ATC training. Can you find us? More than 30 years later Bengt-Inge recruited me to ICAO and the ICAO-Namibian project. The picture above was taken on my arrival – 2 … Continue reading →

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DCA now training their own instructors

Posted on 26 November, 2012 by Anders

Two weeks ago we trained Abiud to be an instructor for the Eurocat-X system training. This week Abiud is training two of his colleagues to be instructors. Above Mr. Gerorge Matroos, instructor to be, Mr. Victor LIkando, Chief ATC (monitoring … Continue reading →

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Another training of instructors

Posted on 16 November, 2012 by Anders

This week the ICAO ATC team finished another training. Mr. Abiud Mbaisa and Mr. Ben Engelbrecht are now ready to start the training of their younger colleagues in the operative handling of the Eurocat-X. According to the agreed plans this … Continue reading →

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Transfer of training

Posted on 9 November, 2012 by Anders

This week the ICAO team has been busy handing over the system training for the handling of the Eurocat-X. This was one of the first tasks we started on after arriving in March 2011. We had access to an older … Continue reading →

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The Air Traffic Services Manual

Posted on 8 November, 2012 by Anders

After months of hard work Mr. Ben Hallberg today finalized the work on a new Namibian Air Traffic Services Manual and handed it over to the local management. The new manual is of course compliant with all the ICAO recommendations … Continue reading →

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