What do you do in the real world?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


I know the answer. My point is that a pilot should not get anywhere
near an IFR flight plan if he/she doesn't know the answer to that
question. I am not being melodramatic. It can get you killed. You
NEED to know that stuff.


So what is the answer?

I believe your question was: "This still leaves some unanswered
questions, though. If you are given a heading without a fix, and the
heading does not intercept your flight plan or any approach or any
expected routing, where do you go? In VMC you are clearly expected to
go VFR and land. In IMC, what do you do?"

If you don't know the regulation and the controller makes a mistake
(they do) and does not give you the fix/reason you are being vectored,
then it is ambiguous. You always need to know why you are being
vectored and what you are being vectored to. So if you get vectors and
are not told anything else other than you are being vectored you need to
ask them why/where to, etc. They are required to give that information
to you.



The fact that the person did not even look it up and instead came to a
newsgroup for an answer is also a problem.


Where would he look it up?


Your assumption tht those who don't post the answer don't know the
answer is ridiculous.


It's actually very logical. People who have the answer are usually more than
willing to give it. Those who don't are usually eager to find a way to
distract attention from their failure to provide an answer. And, of course,
some people just make things up.

Your logic is flawed. Not all people are like you and want to show off
how much they (think they) know.



Spoon feeding pilots who are dangerous and ignorant is a sure way to
disaster.


So when I don't look something up, it's bad; and when I do look something up,
it's bad. Do you see a problem here?

I didn't say that. Not looking it up or knowing where to look it up is
a problem. It is one thing if it is a vfr pilot asking - or someone
curious about it. But if the pilot is instrument rated and files IFR
for flights he/she should know it. That person probably then has other
gaps in their training and is a danger to himself and others.



In your little world of games, icing, lost comms, etc don't happen, and
when they do no one dies. In the real world pilots like these can kill
themselves and others. I don't want them flying around when I am up
there flying around.


Since you don't know what to do in this situation, I suppose yours would be
the first NTSB report.


explitive deleted you.