Had a radio failure whilst training with an insturcor to regain my licence at Southend...
Had been talking to approach and was given a Right Base approach onto 24 with a "call on RB" instruction. Made the call and heard nothing back... no other chatter on the radio.
My instructor told me to coniue flying the approach while he dealt with the radio issue. He continued to blind call and sqwarked 7600.
As I turned onto finals there was a "solid green" from the tower... so yes at least one modern VCR still has the lamps to hand! They had the fire truck on standby by the runway as a matter of course.
Once we landed and parked up we called the tower and they confirmed that they could hear us all the way and it was our receive that had packed up.
I have to say getting that solid green was a reassuring sight
