When's The Last Time You Had To Hold?

[minitour]

I wouldn't call it anything phenomenal...

On the instructor's part, no...it wasn't...

But the fact that you were able to time the legs to turn "outbound" and cross the fix at the right times...man...that's pretty dang good!

-mini

 

[FN FAL]

On the instructor's part, no...it wasn't...

But the fact that you were able to time the legs to turn "outbound" and cross the fix at the right times...man...that's pretty dang good!

-mini

Hehehe...even a blind squirrel gets a nut now and then.

 

[minitour]

Hehehe...even a blind squirrel gets a nut now and then.

haha "Mounds don't" haha

Thanks for the laugh!

-mini

 

[wingnutt]

dam...you guys got it easy. if you havent held in awhile may i suggest;

1)some mountain flying? you know, a few of those "land on 31, takeoff on 13" type places that are surrounded on 3 sides by sharp, pointy, rocky things.

2)then to make it more fun, throw in a non-towered environment which makes the hold even longer cause some dumb@$$ "forgets" to call in and close his flight plan because hes too busy taxiing around trying to figure out where to park.

3)now mix in a few low clouds, nothing fancy...2,000 feet ought to do it.

blend all three in a bowl just long enough to moisten the batter, but not break up the lumps and i guarantee you will have a perfect holding scenario

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

If you want to hold in your career, then fly into SFO when they are operating on a Southeast configuration I.E. landing on 19R/L. If you are in bound on the Golden Gate 4 arrival expect nice delays at Pt. Reyes. Sitting in the tower on those days I see about 7 in the hold, stacked on ontop of the other, skywest EMB's mixed with UAL777's and KLM and all those guys. It happens quite frequently there. Never see the OAK inbounds hold. Maybe cause they aren't as busy....

 

[ATCER]

I guess no one here flys into PHL or EWR ... we hold for them just about every day. IAD is another one... the center holds daily for them.

Then again, I heard another aircraft ask ATC what the "hold as published" meant since they were too lazy to dig up the chart.

-Neal

Happens more then you would think...

 

[Kingairrick]

I'm holding it right now...anyone want a picture?

 

[User546]

I'm holding it right now...anyone want a picture?

No, but what about one of your wife I keep hearing so much about!

 

[FlyChicaga]

About two months ago, inbound to CLE. Before that, new-hire training.

A better thread: When's the last time you've flown an NDB approach in actual? Last year here...

 

[Flechas]

Last hold, 1 in Jan and 1 in Dec, going into EWR.
While flying GA, only had to hold once in Mariana, FL. A lear was doing the approach and there is no tower there, the lear went missed and I did the approach, then the lear landed
Lats NDB in actual, last year, had to go missed the firsttime around, landed the second try.

 

[Alchemy]

January 31, 2005. KAWSE intersection on the Gland Arrival into IAH. Reason: IAH shutdown due to thunderstorm.

First time I've ever done a hold outside the training environment. I think I had to push 5 buttons on the FMS. That's a lot of work.

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

Today on the way into PHX.

 

[bobbysamd]

Holding

I have received only two real holds. One was with a student at Drake VOR in PRC in 1989. It was very simple, a direct entry to the published hold. What made it interesting is ERAU placed tremendous emphasis on obtaining EFC times for clearances and the controller did not give us an EFC time. My student received the clearance but then I piped up and asked ATC for the EFC time. A great example of applying training to real conditions.

The only other time was near MLB in 1992. My instrument students and I were returning to VRB on a clearance and a thunderstorm arrived over the field. ATC gave us a DME hold with a direct entry. Very simple.

Not that I have so much experience with holding, but I believe that ATC tries to make holding and holding entries simple instead of the complicated stuff a good instrument instructor will provide.

 

[satpak77]

I held for 45 minutes while Toluca/MMTO figured out why their runway lights went out for no reason

that was a few nights ago

alternate was Acapulco so either way it would have worked out



Last year I held over ABL-NDB at 14,000 for 20 minutes also

alternate was SKCL, glad we got into destination

 

[91100 100 set]

I probably get a hold about once every two weeks, but almost daily you can count on speed restrictions, vectors for spacing, etc.

I always wonder about the national airspace system when the following occurs: You get a delay with an EDC time on the ground. Then they slow you down enroute, then they take you off the route for spacing, then clear you direct to the "handoff fix" (I don't know the official ATC term for this, I sure some controller could inform us, but it's the fix where center will usually hand you off to the approach facility). But before you get there, they tell you "New York/Boston/Philly/etc. has stopped arrivals, advise ready to copy holding instructions". So you hold for awhile. Approach finally takes you, but before too long you're getting a tour of the Mass, CT, or PA on vectors with approach. Meanwhile, you are watching the fuel tick down ten pounds at a time, wondering exactly what you'd do if the radios go dark. I realize that complete, honest to goodness lost comm situations are rare in part 25 aircraft these days (save for the occasional "oops, I don't know how the headset audio get turned down"), but I always wonder how much mayhem would occur at center and approach if somebody was honestly lost comm going to LaGuardia.