"Ron Garret" wrote in message
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Unless you lose comm. That's the only circumstance where this issue
really rears its ugly head.

Case in point: suppose I'm flying from Catalina to Fullerton.
(http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0606/05136VA.PDF) The clearance is V21 SLI
direct. In practice they always vector you straight in. But if you
lose comm, technically you're required to fly to SLI, turn 178 degrees
(or 182), fly outbound for the PT, turn 180 degrees again to go back to
SLI (where you just came from) and then fly the approach.

I once flew this route and asked a controller what I should actually do
in this situation. His response was that it had never happened, they
had never thought about it, and that they'd probably expect me to just
fly the approach straight in.

Welcome to the real world.


I'd consider real world radio failure in IMC to be an emergency and use my
emergency authority to ignore any technical requirement to fly to SLI, turn
178 degrees (or 182), fly outbound for the PT, turn 180 degrees again to go
back to SLI (where I just came from) and then fly the approach.