"Geo. Anderson" wrote in message . ..

Checkride next week. Discussion today: CFII and I remember somewhere
being told that an IFR flight plan must terminate at an IAF for the
destination airport. Seems logical. But where is this written?


It isn't written anywhere that makes it a requirement. In most cases
where the IAF is not part of the enroute system the flight data
processing computer will not accept it anyway.



Further discussion, comm failu I am cleared for all approaches, I
leave the as-filed IAF on time, etc. BUT -- even though I may not have
a charted path from that IAF to all of the other approaches, I am still
permitted to use any of them. Under emergency authority, I guess I can
legally bumble my way to another IAF even though there is not an
official way to find it. Is that the rationale that lets me choose any
approach when leaving my one filed IAF?


This has been discussed in this forum ad nauseam. I suggest a Google
Groups search with NORDO as a keyword.