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Last day at work for Johan

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

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

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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Skolavslutning för Hanna

Tisdag morgon samlades barnen i “lower prep” (som är årskurs 1-3) samt deras lärare och föräldrar i ett stort tält på skolan. Barnen kom in och satte sig och uppräkningen började. I dessa årskurser får alla barn ett diplom av … Continue reading

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Sista kvällen på Sonneneck

Den andre mars 2011 kom jag för första gången till “Haus Sonneneck” i Windhoek och möttes av Binge, Tanja och Johan samt ett gäng Windhoek lager. Efterhand har alla vi sex svenskar på ICAO-uppdrag bott på Sonneneck någon period och … 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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