Cruz5350

Once I taught my brain how to look at everything in a birds eye view flying holds, approaches, PT's etc. etc. got a lot easier. OP draw out holds on the ground and walk from different angles into the hold to practice the various ways to enter. Heck even bring an egg timer with you and time yourself. All the while thinking you are a bird and looking down on the hold.

fjetter

If you have access to a sim use that with a variety of xwind scenarios and then review the ground tracks. It will help build confidence and understanding at a lesser cost.

I'll usually have my students doing a non-gyro single nav holding patterns with 25 kt crosswinds in it. No only do you have to think headings but mag compass errors associated with the desired heading.

mmaviator

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http:// www . aviationchatter . com / flight - training - aids / navsim /

The second link wouldn't post right.....must be a competing website? Just take out the spaces. Now get off APC and practice.

ccjaxpilot

You actually do triple the inbound heading correction on the outbound leg. The inbound leg is one minute, both turns you are using standard rate; 1 minute each, and the outbound leg is 1 minute. Say the correction on inbound leg is 5 degrees. Since there is no wind correction on the turns, you have to account for 3 minutes of correction on the outbound leg. Hence triple the inbound correction.

Cubdriver

Typical documents listing all the rules of thumb for performing holding patterns comes to around 3 pages of typed info and the interwebs may not the best place to write it all out. The OP asked why did his instructor fly an outbound leg that was more than one minute-

Since this is a situation where headwinds affect the outbound leg and tailwinds affect the inbound leg, the rule of thumb for crosswind corrections gives us two options. The simpler of the two options is to fly twice the inbound crab angle for the entire outbound leg however long it is, and it will be longer than one minute. This is what I said to do. Option two is, you can triple the inbound crab on the outbound leg for one minute, then go to double the inbound crab for the rest of the leg.

I am not sure anyone answered his question as to whether the inbound legs should be one minute. The answer is yes, but you have to start the turn back to outbound when the to-from indicator tells you the fix has been passed, and this may or may not be exactly one minute depending on how well you are timing things. At least in theory you want to fly one minute on the inbound leg. In real life you may have to keep adjusting things so that it gets as close as possible but it sounds like your CFII guessed a bit on the short side when he told you to fly only 1:10 on the outbound leg, and then you ran out of time on the inbound leg.