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JB74

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I was thumbing through the AIM and couldn't find anything on what to do in the event of a lost comm during a radar approach. If IMC at the MDA/DA (if you made it down that far before you lost radios), how do you fly the missed and what happends next?

Say you've already lost your navs (the reason you were shooting a radar approach in the first place), and the nearest VMC is over an hour away?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've yet to fly a radar approach and was curious.

Thanks in advance!
 
This is from Navy flying. First, before you conduct the approach, you are given missed approach instructions. Plus, they are going to be on the approach plate if you don't get them over the radio. Second, as far as lost comm goes, to conduct the approach with weather at or below mins, you have to have the fuel to be able to go to your alternate. And if you can only shoot a PAR at your destination, than your alternate must have an approach in which you can shoot lost comm (tacan, vor, ILS). If you don't have instruments to shoot an approach at your alternate then the weather at your alternate has to be 3000/3. That's off the top of my head.
 
Just an add on to the above,

When I did ASR's at civilian airports, we gave missed approach/lost comm instructions when the weather was marginal or IFR. Not when it was good VFR. (Hey, just take over visualy and land!)
 

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