What do you do in the real world?

Newps wrote:


Tim wrote:



I agree - but the OP thinks that since his clearance limit is an
airport that he is to fly to that airport, THEN navigate to an IAF to
do an approach. He wanted to know what to do when arriving at a
clearance limit when there are no published holds at that point. I
could not believe someone flying IFR routinely does not know what to
do. That is why I posted it.

I hope you are not saying to do this at any airport.


As a controller at a class C I want you down. We will be watching you
on radar. ATC has no idea what your estrimated time is to any fix in a
radar environment. Don't sit anywhere and hold. If it's VFR pick an
airplane to follow and land, just like your NORDO in the pattern. If
your IMC pick an approach and land.


That sounds good to me. I was not advocating holding - I was pointing
out that making stuff up was not correct - the situation is addressed
and there is no need to improvise as the OP stated. My point was that
this is the procedure one is supposed to follow nordo or not when you
reach a clearance limit with no other instructions and no published hold
at that limit.