Aircraft landing system having simplified out-of coverage...

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CA 2019677

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE In the ground-based equipment of a microwave landing system (MLS), a linear array antenna is employed to generate both a scanning guidance beam, which provides azimuthal position data to an incoming aircraft, and a pair of out-of-coverage indication (OCI) beams, which are disposed outside of the sector covered by the scanning guidance beam. For sweeping the guide beam, phase shifts are updated in a linear phase gradient to scan the beam to the right and to the left of the centerline of the antenna. To form the pair of OCI beams, the main lobe of the antenna radiation pattern is directed to one side of the antenna's centerline, outside the normal scanning range, thereby producing a grating lobe on the opposite side of the centerline. Furthermore, a quadratic phase shift function is superimposed upon the linear phase gradient to defocus the OCI beams so as to fill a sufficient sector of space, on both sides of the scanned region, for OCI coverage.

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