clearance received or not?
Good morning everybody,
as a pilot I'd like to address you a doubt related to a situation I found myself in during my last sim check.
This is the situation:
during an IFR flight, ATC instruct me to proceed direct to the VOR for an ILS approach to runway 21. I'm west of the VOR and I start tracking the 270 radial inbound, so my heading is 090. A few miles before the station, ATC instruct me to turn right to a final heading of 130 "vector for spacing with other traffic". This final heading is now taking me away from the VOR. When the VOR is already behind me, let say I'm on radial 150 and still flying heading 130, I realize I'm totally lost comm.
The airport I'm flying to has special lost comms procedure depending if the aircraft involved has received a clearance or not.
In your opinion, considering I received a first clearance to proceed to the VOR for an ILS approach but then I was put under radar vector, which procedure shall I apply? "clearance received" or "clearance not received"?
Thank you very much in advance to you all