2 questions about instruments

[Polar742]

DME arc: Turn to the initial heading. If the number gets bigger, turn a little towards the VOR. The "turn 10, twist 10" thing gets old, make your life easy.

Hold: cross the fix, turn however you want, just stay on the protected side. Make your life easy.

I like the DME arc (just works in slow movers though, you really need an RMI in a fast plane - trust me on this one.)

Holding: make the least amount of turns required. bring a pad. draw your fix and quadrants. draw it out. After 9 years of glass, going back to steam, I did this. CAs with 20 years on steam did it. It works, it's simple.

 

[mooneyguy]

Determining your entry is simple! Think about it like this. Once you are over your fix IF the biggest part of the hold course is ahead and right its a tear drop. IF the hold course is ahead and left, its a parallel, and IF the hold course is behing you, its direct entry!

 

[averyrm]

I like the DME arc (just works in slow movers though, you really need an RMI in a fast plane - trust me on this one.)

Yeah, makes sense. Never done a DME arc in the lear though, so no practice.

 

[Sled14]

Try going through entrys on this website, may help.
http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/hold_quiz/

 

[Flying Bison]

surprised nobody has mentioned this:

Picture this covering the DG:

P|T
D

looking down over the plane, pilot in the left seat, teacher in the right seat, dummy (passenger) in the back, whatever radial you need to hold on, look at your DG while your inbound to the station, and which ever quadrant it falls on, you use the corresponding entry (p=parallel, D=direct, T= teardrop)

ex: we are flying 360, and we need to hold on the 030 radial. That is the top right quadrant, where the "teacher" is, so its a teardrop entry. hard to spell out i suppose, but it makes perfect sense to my students.