zatatime wrote in message . ..
What do you when you get to the "general area" while experiencing a
comm failure?

Planning to the IAF gives you procedures to follow if this were to
happen and all parties involved will know what to expect.

In an actual comm failure you are required to follow your issued
clearance. Filing to the IAF will (in my experience) not ever result
in a clearance to go to the IAF. ATC just doesn't care what you filed
when it comes to getting you to the airport. The only time you are
allowed to fly what you've filed in a comm failure is if your
clearance issued doesn't send you all the way to your airport. In my
many years of flying IFR all over this country, I've only once not had
my clearance limit not be the airport I'm going to. So, in the case of
comm failure, you'd have to fly your assigned clearance anyway, not
what you've filed. Of course none of this makes any difference if its
not IMC all the way, if you find VMC, you just land in VMC.

-Robert