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Old 3rd Nov 2013, 13:32
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As Westhawk pointed out, the radar antenna's beam width is not linked to brand but antenna size.

A 30" diameter flat-plate antenna will produce about 3 degrees of beam width. a smaller diameter would give a wider beam. Now that is for flat-plate. For other shapes, results may differ, but in commercial aircraft I believe this to be almost exclusively flat-plate antennas.

Although I don't know the whole product range of Collins, I suspect they offer radar equipment to fit in various aircraft size, and give options for different flat-plate diameters.

A reference section regarding angle, distance and beam width of radar equipment can be found in the book "M3: Mental Math for Aviators". Of course other sources can be found online too.

newifr, which aircraft is your Collins equipment mounted on? Do you know the antenna diameter?

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