Do You Know How to Handle These 7 IFR Lost Comm Procedures? 1) You call up center for your clearance on the ground at Sky Harbor airport (KDYT) and they say:

"Piper 334FL, cleared to the St. Paul airport as filed, climb and maintain 4,000 expect 6,000 one zero minutes after departure, departure frequency is 125.45, squawk 0214, clearance void time is 2015z, time now 2000z." What does Clearance Void Time mean?

A. When your taxi clearance is void B. Your IFR flight plan becomes active at that time C. ATC will cancel services at that time D. You must be airborne by this time

2) 10 minutes later, you are in IMC and flying south on your filed route of V13 and you just passed over

DAYAR. You realized that you haven't heard radio transmissions in a while. You conclude that you have had a radio failure. What should you do?

A. Continue on V13 to St. Paul at 6000 ft. B. Descend to the MEA of 4000 and hold at SIREN VOR C. Turn back to Duluth D. Land at SUPERIOR Richard I Bond (KSUW)

3) You are still flying on V13 when you pass over WHISK. How can you identify this intersection?

A. 17 DME/085 radial from the GOPHER VORTAC B. 32 DME/011 radial from the FARMINGTON VORTAC C. GPS with up-to-date database D. All the above

4) You still have a communications failure and are approaching the KIKKY INT in IMC, the initial

approach fix for the ILS RWY 32 into St. Paul. Your ETA is 2145z and right now its 2130z. What should you do?

A. Proceed with the approach B. Enter a standard holding pattern at KIKKY until your EAT, then proceed inbound C. Hold over the airport and wait for weather conditions to improve D. Hold at BABCO until your ETA, then proceed inbound

5) You pick up the weather, and the reported temperature is -30 degrees Celsius. Your aircraft is not a temperature compensating aircraft. Assuming you are approximately 2,000 ft. AGL, what corrected altitude would you use as you pass KIKKY inbound?

A. 2120 B. 2380 C. 2620 D. 2880

6) As you shoot the approach, approximately how long will it take you to get from BABCO to the

missed approach point at 90 knots groundspeed (see chart on previous page)?

A. 3 minutes 28 seconds B. 2 minutes 46 seconds C. 3 minutes, 5 seconds D. 4 minutes, 2 seconds

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