Category Archives: In English

Year End

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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The final validation by the ICAO ATC team

The last few weeks the ICAO team has been training Mrs. Teopolina J. Titus in the simulator. Some of the later exercises have been demanding with both a lot of aircraft… …and a lot of conflicts to solve. Today Johan … Continue reading

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Visiting cheetah again

After a good breakfast at Frans Indongo lodge we continued to the Cheetah Conservation Fund. CCF is working broadly to save the wild cheetah and its wilderness habitat. They are working with education and public outreach, with science and research … Continue reading

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Frans Indongo lodge

After visiting the Hoba Meteorite we continued south. We had visited Frans Indongo lodge once already but were happy to return. This time I joined one of their game drives. It was in the evening with the sun getting low. … Continue reading

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