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Originally Posted by jar_e
And for the laymen...what is its "thing" that it does?
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Testing the instrument landing system (ILS) whose 2 components bring pilots in during crappy weather; a localizer antenna at the end of the runway for lateral guidance, and the glideslope antenna abeam the touchdown zone projecting a vertical glidepath at a 3 degree angle. They need to be tested for accuracy at regular intervals, Nav Canada has modded the heck out of this RJ and it has a bunch of test equipment on board. You can see the 17R localizer antenna array when you're driving by on McKnight, it's the orange funky looking "fence" thing.