Timeline for How should a loss of communications in VFR be dealt with?
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| Mar 15, 2020 at 23:47 | comment | added | Max Power | Even with an activated VFR flight plan, if you were not on flight following then you just show up as another 1200 and they really can't know which 1200 is which flight plan. Squawking 7600 is better in that they know this radar dot has lost radio but again it started as just another 1200 and they don't know which. | |
| Mar 26, 2017 at 5:39 | comment | added | Bullfrog | @Jimmy 100% Agree, ATC don't always keep track of VFR flight plans until they are needed. Everyday I have a pile of VFR flight plans that are never needed as they never called up. Flight Service knew about them not me. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | Jimmy | The OP asked with reference to VFR flight (not the conditions, or weather, but the rules themselves). There is no technical requirement for a VFR flight to file a flight plan, and even if one was filed with Flight Service, ATC is not involved and is not tracking the flight. Therefore, there is nothing that ATC is expecting the flight to "stick to". | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | But isn't it so that if you have a flight plan, ATC will expect you to stick to it and therefore you should (and thus not divert)? | |
| Mar 19, 2017 at 6:16 | history | answered | Jimmy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |