Loss of comms

[Nuno Santos]

Today I was flying on another network with my C172 when I had an electrical failure leading to complete loss of avionics, no radios, no autopilot, nothing. Pretty cool the way that's represented on A2A, you can actually hear the short I have FS Passengers enabled so an urgency or emergency comes up every now and then, so I had it today.

There was no ATC online, thank good, but anyway I've managed to set squawk 7600 through the pilot client, because on my airplane that would be impossible due to the loss of radios. So, if this was on PE where ATC is always on during service time, what would be the correct procedure for me to do? Mind you that I would be unable to squawk 7600 due to avionics failure. Would the controllers still see me on their scopes? Should I disconnect if this happened on PE?

[Keith Smith]

Squawk 7600 then execute the lost comms procedure (which varies based on weather conditions). No need to disconnect from PE.

[Pieces]

Squawk 7600 then execute the lost comms procedure (which varies based on weather conditions). No need to disconnect from PE.

He did point out that he completely lost electrical power, which means no transponder available to squawk 7600 with. I think the procedure is the same either way, though.

[Nuno Santos]

Squawk 7600 then execute the lost comms procedure (which varies based on weather conditions). No need to disconnect from PE.

Remember, no radios, no transponder. Is there any alias on the pilot client to change the squawk code? On Ivap you just type .x 7600 or whatever code you need and it will automatically change to that code. But on PE how can I change the code? Or is it only changeable through the radios?

[Keith Smith]

Yes, I misread it. I would squawk 7600 in case you can restore power, but I wouldn't bend over backwards to force the pilot client to do something else through a back door code, it doesn't serve any training value.