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Old 10th Aug 2015, 04:54
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Just a question, the radar appears destroyed, doesnt this couple with the autoland?
On some aircraft types, including the A320, the (ILS) Instrument Landing System has antennas behind the radome, so there exists the potential for both radar and autoland to be inoperative if the radome suffered enough damage.

Also, some aircraft have a metallic strip stuck to the inside of the curved radome surface which focusses/concentrates the ILS beam (from the groundstation). Google revealed that in one case, a missing director/reflector strip contributed to an air incident.

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