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Originally Posted by surreal1221  Agreed. . .I retract that statement. I forgot to mention I'd have AOPA legal on the phone first. 
Now here is a question.
If you do indeed go NORDO, is that not classified as an emergency, and thus a phone call(or contact) to(or with) the Air Traffic Manager not required? |
Did the pilot declare an emergency? In a NORDO situation, there's only one way to declare...put it in the squawk, from my understanding. ATC cannot declare for a pilot, correct?
Yes, I would give a courtesy call to the tower and thank them for the light gun signals that you will get, and for their help. That's about all I would say. If they need more info, we'll meet off the record (and away from recorders) until I have legal council, no matter what. YMMV, but I hate lawyers and the FAA has a lot of them. Might as well fight fire with fire to cover my proverbial rear!!!