"Jose" wrote in message
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Ok, now let's change the example a bit.

This time, on initial contact you're told "maintain 5,000 join the runway
36 localizer" Then, five miles from DEPRE the approach controller says
"AWI123 cleared ILS runway three six contact tower one one eight point
seven."

You acknowledge, then lose coms. Dive? PT? Racetrack?


I don't get in that position. When I'm about nine miles from DEPRE, as I'm
about to intercept the GS at 5,000', I ask the controller if I'm cleared for
the approach. He responds, "AWI123 cleared ILS runway 36 approach", and I
start down on the GS. When my comm radios mysteriously fail four miles down
the road while all my other avionics continue operating flawlessly I just
continue on a normal ILS approach and land.