GPS approaches/Filing IAF

Good to know. You'd think that anything designated as an IAF would be in the
system..



The whole filing thing is more to do with Lost Comms than anything else.

Mmmm. Well. I have two radios, two antenna, extra headset jacks, and
a handheld radio with headset adaptor. I could be wrong, but I think
the most likely reason for me to lose comms (other than temporarily)
would be electrical failure.

In that case, I think the best thing for me to do is beat it to the
nearest VFR wx.

If I do lose comms for some other reason, I'm going to land at the
nearest practical airport. Let's say I'm flying into BWI. Think
ATC wants me to follow lost comm procs, hold at the IAF for one of
the ILS then shoot the approach? Or do they want me to skedaddle
down the GPS approach into some airport along the way and get out of
their hair ASAP? I know which gets my vote.

Undoubtedly, but you still file a plan primarily for routing & lost comms.
If there are no other more sensible actions, then you are supposed to fly
what you've filed.




Unless I've specifically requested the Full Procedure- ABC Transition,
then,
as stated by another poster, you always get vectored to final.

Um, no. If you are flying into airports where the ATC facility can
provide radar vectors to the FAC, you almost always get vectored to
final. However, there are many airports and many approaches where this
isn't true, and you'll be flying the full approach including the PT or
other course reversal.

Um, obviously with no radar, there'll be no vectoring.




"Slav Inger" wrote in message
om...
Question: take a look at the VOR Rwy 28 approach at Marshall Brooks
field (RMY). I've filed IFR to airports where the VOR IAF happened to
be the VOR which was no problem, I'd just have that VOR be the last
fix in the route box on flight plan form. In RMY's case, the IAF
appears to be the intersection ALBIO. So, on the flight plan, should
the route terminate at ALBIO? That intersection isn't even on the
enroute chart.

Slav, if the intersection isn't on the enroute chart, it's not likely
to be in the ATC computers unless your departure is served by the same
ATC facility. So I wouldn't file it.

JMO.

Best,
Sydney