Holding instruction

[Mike Massimini]

Call me stupid but wouldn't it be easier to do a parallel? You're already on a heading of 030 which is only 10 degrees from your inbound radial. My personal opinion I guess. Am I wrong?

Yo're not stupid, and whatever floats your boat ... but draw it out and you'll see the "standard" entry in this situation is a teardrop.

 

[ahsmatt7]

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Yo're not stupid, and whatever floats your boat ... but draw it out and you'll see the "standard" entry in this situation is a teardrop.

Yeah that's what I was using. For some reason, for the last 1000 hours, I have rarely used teardrop entries. I have no idea why. It looks like exactly what you said...whatever floats my boat.

 

[gulfstreampiper]

I use the "70 degree method" and it takes a lot of the guess work out. If your current heading is within 70 degrees of your inbound course, its a direct entry, anything else and its a parallel.

 

[Cpt Cook]

On my first ever interview I had the chief pilot try to give me a very similar hold. He wanted me to hold "southeast" on the 040 radial 10 DME fix. I basically had to tell him I couldn't hold southeast and that I think he wants me to hold northeast for a course reversal to come back for the approach (I was doing a lot of CFII work at the time so I knew what his plan was). After we finish the sim he try's to explain his hold instructions and draws the VOR with a line for 040 around where 120 would be. I Had to redraw the radial and his exact words were, "well ain't that something". Pretty mind blowing stuff when you have to correct your future chief pilot.

Later on when I was doing the oral portion of the interview with somebody else he walks in and without even asking how it was going he simply says "well, I think we should hire this guy". Good thing it was a tour operator and we rarely flew IFR.

 

[Mike Massimini]

On my first ever interview I had the chief pilot try to give me a very similar hold.

Later on when I was doing the oral portion of the interview with somebody else he walks in and without even asking how it was going he simply says "well, I think we should hire this guy". Good thing it was a tour operator and we rarely flew IFR.

He at least was an honest man. How many would have held the correction against you, and not hired you?