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"Chip Jones" wrote in message ink.net... And holds for how long without an EFC? As long as he chooses. |
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"Chip Jones" wrote in message ink.net... Neither are holding instructions... Well, they can be, although I don't know why anyone would. |
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Judah wrote in message . ..
Seems to me the easiest solution in this case is to carry a handheld and some spare batteries. Well, maybe. First see a recent post by Roy Smith wrt how useful he and a friend found a handheld to be when they experienced a radio failure in busy NYC airspace (an area with generally very good radio reception, though busy frequencies). At a minimum for a handheld to be useful, you need a headset adaptor and a cable so that the duckie antenna can be situated on a window, preferably a connection to an external antenna. Even with a headset adaptor and an external antenna connection and cable, personally if I were flying single-pilot IFR in rough IMC, digging out the handheld and setting it up would be pretty low on my list of priorities. But perhaps that's just me, and other pilots are more capable of aviating and navigating while digging stuff out and setting it up. Cheers, Sydney |
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Chip Jones" wrote in message ink.net... Neither are holding instructions... Well, they can be, although I don't know why anyone would. I don't know why either, nor why any pilot would accept an airborne holding clearance without an EFC. Chip, ZTL |
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Chip Jones" wrote in message ink.net... And holds for how long without an EFC? As long as he chooses. Which begs the question, why hold at all? A supe of mine who has several thousand hours as a pre-strike freight dog told me he'd make one turn in the pattern and then continue on (assuming IMC/ lost comm etc), but he couldn't defend the "why" of it. These non-radar paper-stop rules don't seem to stand on their own very well, IMO. Chip, ZTL |
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