From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!peter
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Title: lost com procedures in IFR
Article-I.D.: floyd.920
Posted: Tue Dec  7 10:34:06 1982
Received: Wed Dec  8 02:50:29 1982

  Are our lost communications (LC) procedures obsolete?  For whom?  If 
you have two COMs (and how many people fly IFR with only one?) what is the
probability that you'll lose both without the cause being complete electric-
al failure?  My point is that this will also kill your NAV and transponder,
so the LC procedures won't work.  Does anyone know of any actual cases?
Do you have a suggestion for a standard procedure to cover complete
electrical failure in IMC?
   Please send me all your ideas, with my thanks.

                                               Peter Hirsch (CFII)
						Bell Labs, 1A106
						Whippany, NJ 07981