Originally Posted by wingman863
My radio did fail on me when I was in on of my early lessons. I was with an instructor so I flew while he did what he could to fix it, which wasn't much because it was rather buggered. I seem to remember we stayed around the same position near the edge of the control zone, just outside the controlled airspace and then magically another PA-28 appeared and "intercepted us". It turned out to be really good fun as we followed the other plane back to the airfield and landed. It turned out that some intrical part of the radio had died and the control tower had realised before we did and called the flight school who sent up another plane to get us.
Bit worrying that your instructor apparently didn't know the way back on his own.
One hopes that somebody decided to make a bit of an exercise out of it, rather than that the shepherd aircraft was really required.
G