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Key Takeaways:

  • The article "Say Again? #51: Lost Communications -- NORDO -- Part 2" addresses the complex scenario of losing communications (NORDO) while flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) near a destination.
  • It explores the challenges pilots face in safely descending and how Air Traffic Control (ATC) attempts to predict a pilot's actions during a lost comms situation.
  • The author highlights the confusing and unclear nature of the rules governing lost communications procedures.
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Say Again? #51: Lost Communications — NORDO — Part 2
You’ve made it almost all the way to your destination, in the clouds and lost comm … what now? How do you get down, and how does ATC figure out what you’re going to do once you decide? AVweb’s Don Brown is as confused by the rules as you are.

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