What do you do if...
So i'm about half way through my PPL, having only just gone solo about a month ago. I haven't flown since and i'm keeping the withdrawal symptoms at bay by "mentally flying"!
Anyway, i was just wondering what people would do in certain circumstances.
You're flying circuits and you just turned downwind, ready to give your downwind call, but you can't get a word in as the radio (tower) is really busy. Before you know it, you're ready to turn final and still can't get talking to ATC.
Do you continue with your approach? Potentially without permission to land/Touch and Go? Or do you abort and go around? At which point should you have made the decision to go around due to no contact with ATC?
Another one being total radio failure... You're coming back to your airfield and are about to request rejoin when you realise comms are dead. Obviously there are the no radio procedures, flying triangles etc. But my understanding (it even says in the textbooks) is that these sometimes (usually) don't work.
So at which point do you give up trying to get ATCs attention by drawing pretty shapes on their screen? And at that point, what do you do? Carry on regardless? Divert?
Sorry if these are silly straight forward questions! You can probably tell, the thought of a radio failure or landing without permission bothers me a bit!
Thanks!