What do you do in the real world?

Ray Andraka wrote:
Roger wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:03:57 -0800, Ron Garret
wrote:


Last night I flew from SJC to VNY. To my astonishment I was cleared
vectors to SNS, then direct VNY (despite having filed a more standard
routing) at 9000 feet. I knew perfectly well that the routing was
going to change because I've done that route a zillion times, and
indeed, near Bakersfield they switched me over to the standard LHS,
LYNXX8 arrival, followed by vectors to the ILS RWY 16R.

My question is: what should I have done if I'd been in IMC and lost
comm before they changed my routing? By the book I should have
continued to fly my clearance, which would have run me into a
mountain around GMN, so that's probably not the right answer. Viable
possibilities seem to include:



There's only one. You fly it as last cleared.
You arrive at the expected time as the expected place.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Radio failure is an emergency. You fly where ever you need to in order
to safely get on the ground. ATC will sort it out and keep other
aircraft out of your way.


So any time a piper cub flies it is an emergency?

So you can fly anywhere you want and atc is supposed to guess where you
are going or magically know whom to keep away from your unknown
position? They cancel and stop all flights while you fly wherever you want?

Does not sound good to me.