Say you lose all radios immediately after takeoff...
You should continue on, and fly the entire route you filed in the flight plan???
I'm reading a book that says this is so, but there are no possible methods of simply returning to land after squawking 7600???
Follow the AVEF rule if in IFR conditions - it allows ATC to better coordinate seperation if they have an idea of what you will do vs having no idea what you intend on doing.
If VFR continue VFR and land as soon as practicable.
Thanks.
If VFR, I assume "land as soon as practicable" means land anywhere, even the field you just departed?
I'd put 7700 in my transponder and land at the nearest suitable, to include where I took off from. It's an emergency and the PIC should be able to make the call to suit his needs. My need would be to get my butt on the ground ASAP. ATC would appreciate that, I'm sure. FAR's be damned....
I'd put 7700 in my transponder and land at the nearest suitable, to include where I took off from. It's an emergency and the PIC should be able to make the call to suit his needs. My need would be to get my butt on the ground ASAP. ATC would appreciate that, I'm sure. FAR's be damned....
Say you lose all radios immediately after takeoff...
You should continue on, and fly the entire route you filed in the flight plan???
I'm reading a book that says this is so, but there are no possible methods of simply returning to land after squawking 7600???
I agree, flying on for 3hrs on the AVEF model when you could do a quick 180 and put it on the deck is insane, and dangerous.
Ok I just got my instrument ticket so I should know this. If in VFR, land and land anywhere. If in IMC, you have different requirements for altitude and heading. For altitude its the HIGHEST of MEA, Expected (given from ATC), or assigned (given from ATC). for Heading its Assigned, Vectored, Expected and Filed, in that order, and you can fly your filed flight plan and go to a location from which an approach can begin (IAF). Now I'm not clear as to what is the different from assigned as opposed to vectored. And what happens if say cler. delv. gives you an initial heading to fly after take off and you loose comms right after departure, do you fly your assigned heading forever, or do you go to your filed and when?
I fly out of an uncontrolled airfield so I have to call up ATC to get my IFR clearence, and they will usually say "upon departure fly heading 270 climb to 2000' and contact approach". Well what if im wheels up and flying 270 more or less in the pattern (at my airport anyway) and I loose comms. Do I continue to fly 270 till the wings fall off, or do I just go to as filed and continue on my way? (which I assume is what I do) and when do I do this? Say I want to go in a direction other than 270, say my flight plan is to the south, when do I make the turn to the south? I had said when I reach my assigned altitue I would turn to get on to my as filed plan.
So in here, I've seen 7600 and 7700.
I'd hardly consider a loss of comms an emergency. That's what 7600 is for.