Perhaps, though my experience is that vectors are given WELL in advance
of any possible collision. In my case, I believe they were vectoring to
keep me out of approach paths into Cleveland.

There is still a question of how lost comms is handled in this situation.



Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
"O. Sami Saydjari" wrote:


To be unambiguous, through, it seems the instruction would have to
include a time, like "Gulfstream zero golf alpha, turn left heading 250
vectors for traffic, you can expect direct choo choo in 10 minutes,"
otherwise you do not know when to resume direct choo choo.


By the time the controller is done saying all that, you might already be a
hood ornament on the traffic he was trying to vector you around.