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Originally Posted by liandrajade
so going by the previous posts of briefly and rosstafari, there was a point where the pilot was able to tell atc that he was leaving such and such airpsace and to expect another contact attempt in such and such time, based on the fact that he/she knew he was going into an area with no radio signals whatsover...and assuming he was continuing his current flightplan with no problems, they would have expected him/her to radio back into contact when the a/c reached an area with communication ability? and this would have been based on altitude and flight speed?
so it would be safe to assume for example if the area you are flying over has no radio comms for 500 miles and you are traveling 320 per hour, you would have been able to calculate/estimate the time it would take to get out of the area of dead comms....and then look for contact from the flight crew...
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Yes, that's correct.
Heh, notice that I deleted my post right after you read it... I wasn't sure if it was true for just general aviation or not. But the gist of it was that in interoceanic flight and flight over remote areas, aircraft can be in spots where ATC contact is not possible. Since the article notes that the Air France flight
missed a radio call, though, they weren't into that area just yet. Still, that's not reason alone for alarm; radios fail all the time. Just not usually in big jetliners.