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Old 29th January 2011 | 11:46
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maxred
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Losing Comms

I always feared losing my comms at a critical moment, and it happened on Wednesday, flying a club aircraft. Middle of the control zone, on handover from radar to the tower, lost the lot!!
Circled over the city as we tried to figure out the confusing picture, did not get comms back, eventually 7600 on the transponder, full-blown emergency now, managed to get one way transmit on approach frequency, and brought in to land with all traffic ops on hold - 5.00 at night.

I have looked back at the incident, and it looks as though we handled it well, and I am glad it has now happened and I have experienced it, but I was a bit panicked and confused for a spell as I tried to 'get the picture'
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