"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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But if no delay is expected and you have a radio failure
without an EFC, just how long are you expected to hold?


You're not expected to hold.



If you are given a clearance to hold w/o an EFC there is
still some delay expected, otherwise ATC would not issue a
hold.


If a delay was expected an EFC would have been issued.



Make them say how much delay or give an EFC/EAC time
or you'll be holding until the fuel runs out. Maybe the
book does not require ATC to issue a time, but my sense of
self-preservation wants to know.


How much delay? The answer is "None." The book says do not specify an EFC
if no delay is expected. If your sense of self-preservation can't live with
that don't fly IFR.