IFR Pilots - Learn to time perfect holding patterns in instrument training

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  • čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
  • We talk a lot about holding pattern entries but in this video we review some of the basic principles to flying perfect holding patterns in airplanes. This is great for anybody in instrument training but also for pilots who are looking to instrument current and proficient. Even if you are not flight training. Please enjoy!
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Komentáře • 55

  • @sams6928
    @sams6928 Před 3 lety +33

    I just passed my instrument checkride and wanted to let you know how helpful your videos have been. Thank you so much!

    • @TheFinerPoints
      @TheFinerPoints  Před 3 lety +1

      Sam S awesome to head that! Thx! 🙌 and congrats!! I know how hard that is

    • @abbieamavi
      @abbieamavi Před 3 lety +2

      This will be me soon! Hopefully by the end of August or this September...😅🙏

    • @sams6928
      @sams6928 Před 3 lety

      @@abbieamavi Good luck!!!

    • @sairamsidgiddi9725
      @sairamsidgiddi9725 Před 3 lety +1

      @@abbieamavi Did you pass?

    • @abbieamavi
      @abbieamavi Před 3 lety

      @@sairamsidgiddi9725 I failed during the oral actually 😂

  • @DanCoastie
    @DanCoastie Před 3 lety +14

    This helps. I’m about 1-2 flights away from my Instrument checkride and holds were definitely the hardest part of training!

  • @ik04
    @ik04 Před 3 lety +3

    After 30 years of messing with inbound timing, I began starting my time halfway through the standard rate turn to the inbound course. Since that was the same point on every pattern, my times became consistent and only varied with changes in wind.

  • @shyammohabir8283
    @shyammohabir8283 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm trying to learn this material before I fly a holding pattern. What I've gather so far from watching your video:
    Always determine the procedure with outbound heading
    Right Hand pattern with right thumb, if the number is below your thumb, you're DIRECT (the other are teardrop and parallel)
    If you're holding at a VOR, wait until the flag flip FROM to TO
    Standard Rate Turn to the Right, at 180 degrees, VOR will flip again from TO to FROM (wings Level)
    Start Outbound leg - and Timer 1 Mins
    Figure out wind correction Angle (if 5 degrees to the right on inbound, then triple it in outbound leg)
    GOOD STUFF!

  • @joeyh9942
    @joeyh9942 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent video on holds. Nice memory refresher

  • @onfloat17
    @onfloat17 Před 3 lety +1

    Great timing! (Pun intended) my instructor and I just worked holding patterns today. My first time. It was nice to see this as I review the flight.

  • @michaelgay1513
    @michaelgay1513 Před 2 lety +1

    I have learned to always make sure your DG is set to the magnetic compass properly when determining the wind correction angle. Any difference will become triple when figuring out the outbound leg. I've learned the hard way.

  • @rocktakesover
    @rocktakesover Před 3 lety +4

    Great presentation and easy flowin styyyyyle. Master level work my friend.

  • @BillyJ10
    @BillyJ10 Před 3 lety

    Awesome, thanks

  • @vdubs1112
    @vdubs1112 Před 3 lety +5

    I’m jumping back into my instrument training after a long break due to COVID and this was a great refresher for fine tuning holds. Thanks!

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      @julianbraden2444 Před 2 lety

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    • @ridgereed8163
      @ridgereed8163 Před 2 lety

      @Julian Braden Flixportal xD

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      @julianbraden2444 Před 2 lety

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      @ridgereed8163 Před 2 lety

      @Julian Braden no problem =)

  • @73av8r5
    @73av8r5 Před 3 lety +7

    I remember teaching NDB holds in windy conditions years ago. What a nightmare. 😱

  • @BB992
    @BB992 Před 3 lety +1

    at 120kt the rule of thumb was add 1 degree/knot of crosswind to the heading that gives outbound track, plus change outbound time by 1s/knot of head/tailwind. works beautifully. it's awesome to see the needle centre as you level off onto the inbound. cant wait to practice this stuff again. tubeliner flying is just about pressing buttons now :/

    • @SuperEddietv
      @SuperEddietv Před 3 lety +1

      Everyone has a formula. Some work for some, some work for others..

  • @mattbasford6299
    @mattbasford6299 Před 3 lety +4

    I'm about to take my instrument checkride in a 172 that has only 2 VOR radios and an ADF. Our club's 182 has brand new G5s and a 650, but I've avoided any training with it. I'm doing it old school. I'll have to learn GPS IFR flying later in it

    • @leannepowers5164
      @leannepowers5164 Před 3 lety +1

      Matt Basford You’ll thank yourself for this later. I promise.

    • @nevillec5252
      @nevillec5252 Před 3 lety

      You're learning the right way. Leave GPS for later. Get the basics right first.

    • @mattbasford6299
      @mattbasford6299 Před 3 lety +1

      I'm kind of an old school guy anyway. I got my Private ticket 14 years ago at 36 years old. I have flown all over the country VFR, but I get tired of occasionally having to spend all day in a pilot's lounge simply because there is a low ceiling.

  • @ClintEatWood
    @ClintEatWood Před 3 lety

    Nice music!

  • @michaelcheney1625
    @michaelcheney1625 Před 2 lety +2

    Hey Jason. I used this video when I was working on my instrument rating, and now I am using it as I am working on my CFI-I.
    My question is regarding holding on an intersection or waypoint in a G1000. You mentioned it is proper to start the outbound timer when you roll wings level out of a standard rate turn. However, if I were to use a RMI to identify abeam the holding fix, would it be appropriate to use that RMI as an indicator to start my outbound leg timer when I am abeam the fix? Thanks.

  • @royce5980
    @royce5980 Před 7 měsíci +2

    is there a precise way to calculate time needed to add or subtract when flying inbound/outbound if there were to be wind?

  • @joshstephens5330
    @joshstephens5330 Před 2 měsíci

    Hey Jason, I haven’t heard start the timer on the intercept before just wings level and I can’t find any info on when to start the timer exactly in the FAA handbooks and the AIM. Can you help me understand where you got that info from?

  • @m0llux
    @m0llux Před 2 lety +2

    Ah yes. The OFJOB fix (Old Friend Jim's Old Barn).

  • @flyingheadband
    @flyingheadband Před 11 měsíci

    Talking about wind correct in the hold you mentioned tripling your outbound correct (as compared to your inbound course correction). In your example you have a 5 degree correction to the south on your inbound leg and then a 15 degree correction to the south on your outbound leg. Shouldn't the correction be 15 degrees to the NORTH on your outbound leg in this example?

  • @snowman1987
    @snowman1987 Před 3 lety

    Where ya walk-in to? Haha. Great tips!

  • @Hisdelhiinlondon
    @Hisdelhiinlondon Před 2 lety

    Where we can practice holds in computer or any internet website to practice holds with wind corrections before actual flying ?

  • @gorgly123
    @gorgly123 Před 3 lety +2

    If you have a GPS or DME could you ask the controller for a fixed distance leg like some holding patterns have (ie, 2, 3 or 4 nautical miles)? That would take all the timing out of the equation.

    • @alexs3187
      @alexs3187 Před 3 lety +2

      The GPS draws the hold for you. Don’t need to worry about distance or time if you have that. Of course, you need to know how to do it with a GPS failure too.

  • @BrentDanley
    @BrentDanley Před 8 měsíci

    Is that Spink Lake in the intro?

  • @heathbirley1774
    @heathbirley1774 Před 2 lety

    Aaaaaaagh!! So many things just clicked. Thanx

  • @donjohnston3776
    @donjohnston3776 Před 3 lety +5

    Great professional video. Kudos for being responsible and wearing a mask. You are a great role model for aviation.

  • @jeffreyrosinbaum9636
    @jeffreyrosinbaum9636 Před 3 lety +2

    Any rule of thumb for adjusting the timing of the outbound leg to get your 1-minute inbound leg? Say a 1:00 outbound gave you a 1:10 inbound leg. How long are you flying on your next outbound leg?

    • @antiNuetron
      @antiNuetron Před 3 lety +1

      Just subtract 10 seconds from the time you fly the outbound leg.

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    @kellyf.5495 Před 3 lety

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  • @WabbitWay
    @WabbitWay Před 2 lety

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  • @WinginWolf
    @WinginWolf Před 3 lety +5

    Hmm, so when tripling the WCA, does that result in a parallel track to the inbound or does it send you out like in the picture?

    • @coreyballard8359
      @coreyballard8359 Před 3 lety +6

      Well, it’ll send you out. You’re going the opposite direction of the inbound leg. So to have a parallel ground track of the inbound while on the outbound, the WCA would need to be the same. We wanna work our way out so that our turn can be standard rate to get back on the inbound. If we don’t make space, we’ll overshoot the inbound. Consider how we work in WCA in a turn by thinking about our bank angle in ground reference maneuvers like s-turns and turns around a point; to work in a “WCA” during these maneuvers, we steepen our bank angle. In instrument flying, we want standard rate, which is a given bank angle at a given airspeed. Therefore, to maintain standard rate (which is a given bank angle at a given speed) and still hit our inbound leg, we have to start farther away from it.

    • @realulli
      @realulli Před 3 lety

      It'll send you out some, but it's supposed to do so. Your holding pattern takes you about 4 minutes. 1 minute on the inbound leg (with normal WCA), 1 minute in the turn after the fix (standard rate, no WCA), 1 minute outbound (3x WCA), one minute in the turn back inbound (again, at standard rate without WCA).
      Logically, if you have 4 one-minute sections in your holding pattern, you can either:
      * have the normal WCA on all sections (not sure how you'd do it in a turn...)
      * have double the WCA on the straight sections to compensate for not having it in the turns (would not be a legal pattern since you wouldn't track the inbound radial)
      * have the normal WCA on the inbound leg and triple the WCA on the outbound leg because you have to compensate for two extra minutes of drift from the two turns.

  • @abbieamavi
    @abbieamavi Před 3 lety +1

    *your videos have been so helpful through my Instrument training! I guess you could say they have been...instrumental. Ok I’ll leave.*

  • @ryanseifert5144
    @ryanseifert5144 Před 3 lety +2

    First ! Thanks Jason

  • @grantlarmstrong
    @grantlarmstrong Před 3 lety

    I have never flown a holding pattern. (It won’t be much longer)
    But why isn’t the WCA flown in bound the same as the WCA you would choose outbound? Is it lost in the turn? Perhaps one of your followers knows as well.

    • @nevillec5252
      @nevillec5252 Před 3 lety

      When flying inbound, you are on a defined track (following a radial). Then you make a std rate turn to your outbound leg. If there is a crosswind, you will drift during the turn. Then you fly the outbound leg. If you only use the WCA determined while flying the I/B leg here, you will track parallel to the I/B leg during the O/B leg. But you need to make up for the drift during the turn from I/B to O/B. You also need to factor in the drift you will have while turning from O/B leg back to I/B. Basically, flying WCA times 3 when O/B factors in the drift during the turns, so you can make comfortable std rate turns.
      The O/B leg is on the "protected side" of the hold, so you are allowed to widen as required. You should not drift to the "non-protected side" while flying I/B. There could be high terrain there, or an airspace restriction.

  • @danmccarthy2213
    @danmccarthy2213 Před 2 lety +2

    I learned nothing.