All the more reason to have a handheld comm, a handheld GPS (turned on using
ship's power for the whole flight so you don't have to wait for it to find
itself), and plenty of fresh batteries.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"K. Ari Krupnikov" wrote in message
...

If you are NORDO, your mode C might not work either... How would ATC
know who's below it?


Whoa there, big hearted fellow. If you're now gonna say the comm failure
might spread to your transponder and encoder leaving you nonradar as well as
NORDO, then I'm gonna say it can spread to your nav radios as well, leaving
you unable to hold anywhere. All the more reason to put it on the ground as
soon as possible.

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