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Hahaha mini, that was at that craptacular 141 school I went to at CRG called Shields Aviation.minitour said:That sounds pretty sweet...but you still haven't told me how to enter the hold backwards....I'm waiting...you know...just for one of those things to make ATC go, "huh?"
(for those of you that can't tell...no...I wouldn't actually enter a hold backwards and tie up airspace for kicks, but FN told a story a few months ago about entering a hold backwards during his training and I wanted him to explain it to me then and he still hasn't...but no...I wouldn't actually do it so spare me the lecture)
-mini
It was one of those fall days in Florida, the ceiling was maybe 6,000-7,000 ovc. Vis below was probably that 10 miles and hazy Florida type of vis. The ride was as smooth as driving a boat on a glassy lake at night and there wasn't any wind aloft to speak of. Which made being under the hood easy...as well as the instructor being hung-over.
We went over to St. Augustine to practice holds and I'm under the hood. I cross the fix and go outbound on the radial/localizer (it was 92...it's been a long time mini!) to do a parallel entry and after one minute, instead of making a 270 back to intercept...I make a one minute standard rate turn and wind up paralleling the inbound course. A minute goes by and I make a one minute standard rate turn again and viola! I'm crossing the fix and outbound on the inbound course...AGAIN!
This goes on for about three or four more trips around the holding pattern. Keep in mind that this is Sunday before lunch and it is really quiet on the radio. JAX approach calls us up on the radio, breaking the morning quiet with, "I don't mean to interrupt your training, but do you guys know that you are flying the holding pattern backwards?"
My instructor, who was sleeping unbeknownst to me, pops too and answers the radio...next thing you know we are well on our way to leaving the scene of the crime. He must have got flustered that we in violation of some FAR or something, because it sure seemed like he wanted to get the hell out of there in a hurry. I don't remember if we were on an IFR or just doing the hold VFR with flight following.
That's all that happened mini...