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Old 22nd Jun 2011, 17:12
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As I recall, the bean originally was 2.5º either side of the centreline, however when autolands became common, it was necessary to have a set beam width to runway ratio to ensure correct autoland performance, hence the change. As every runway is of different length, and the localizer antennae is at the far end of the runway, the LLZ beams are now of different angular spread for each runway.
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