hey everyone Jason Shepard of the m0a
online Ground School in this video we're
going to make holding patterns easy
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about holding patterns show of hands
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holding patterns are really really
confusing I'll give you both hands
because it's true true they're very
challenging and I want to start by
giving you some facts about holding
patterns then we're going to teach
through the different entries and then
we're going to relate it to some real
world flying how to actually when I'm in
the cockpit when I'm in the flight deck
how do I really figure out how to enter
that hold properly let me start with the
first fact here
and it's a big one did you know ATC
usually doesn't care how you get in the
hold now your check right evaluator is
going to Care your instructor is going
to care I care because I want to teach
you right but in fact I would be curious
maybe someone could do a survey one day
how many go survey 10 air traffic
controllers how many air traffic
controllers could tell you the three IFR
holding pattern entries
two out of ten three out of ten Maybe
here's what controllers really care
about can you stay on the protected side
of the hold
no controller is going to scold you and
go ah Jason you made a parallel entry
when you should have made a teardrop
entry they're not going to do that did
you stay on the protected side did you
fly the hold as they expected to but
getting in the hold they don't really
care but I'll tell you your check right
evaluator is going to Care your DPE is
going to Care your instructor is going
to care so we're going to care about it
here and let's start with some more just
holding pattern facts as far as that
goes look at this on your screen here
with me here
did you know with holding patterns right
turns is considered standard I know that
goes against the grain you're used to
left traffic patterns well right turns
are standard in a holding pattern now if
you've done any holds you know there's
really two types time and distance holds
right as far as your inbound outbound
courses go the time starts if you're
using time by the way over or a beam
your fix so just something else to
really keep in mind there now as I
alluded to there are three types of
holding pattern entries they are direct
teardrop and parallel and let me show
you I'm a visual learner probably like
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absolute world to us let me show you
when you would use each of these and how
they would really what they would really
look like let me give you an example so
look at your screen here we map out the
hold I'll show how to figure out where
the hold goes heading wise and
everything else in a bit but this green
area here if I'm approaching from the
green area I'm going to that VOR you see
you can see the arrows for right hand
turns if I'm approaching anywhere in
this green area I make what's called a
direct entry I fly on in right to the
VOR and and I'm in right that is called
a direct entry now my other type of
Entry I might make over in this area
would be a parallel entry what's a
parallel entry if I'm coming in from
this direction well a parallel entry
says I'm going against the grain of the
holding pattern I'm in the wrong
direction right I would it had to my VOR
or to my fix I would get there I would
then parallel it outbound in this case
and I would come back around to enter
into and then complete my right race
track pattern now the last type and the
smallest area there is for the teardrop
the teardrop entry says that I fly to my
fix to my VOR I go past it and I make a
teardrop back around and in
now again like I alluded to if you make
a teardrop when you should have made a
parallel as long as you stay on that
protected side No One's Gonna you know
slap you on the wrist or scold you or
anything along those lines now let's get
to the important part of this video how
do we figure this out when you're
hurtling through the sky at 90 knots in
a hunk of metal right we need to figure
this out to pass a check right to be
that safe real world pilot well let me
give you an example and I teach to use
our head indicator whether you're doing
this in Steam six-pack or you're doing
this on a glass panel it doesn't matter
it all works the same now many modern
antibiotics will do this work for you by
the way as well especially if it's a
published missed approach to a hold but
what if it's unpublished well let's talk
about that and let's teach it through I
teach to use the hidden indicator
imagine you receive a radio call like
this Skyhawk 2-3 Mike Zulu holds
Southwest of the Ocala VOR in the 210
radial maintains six thousand expect
further clearance in two zero minutes
how do we handle that we'll start by
using your headed indicator the first
thing I do is I would drop that fix in
this case the VOR right in the middle of
this head indicator you can see by the
way I'm on a nice North heading right
now I drop that VOR I pretend it's right
in the middle now I need to figure out
okay that 2 1 0 radial where is that two
one zero radial well you see it's
actually right here that 210 radio we
draw a line out to get to our VOR and
now we can slap our right race track
pattern right over that there remember
it's a two one zero radio we're holding
on that as the inbound let me give you
some arrows just to make it a little bit
easier so you can actually see which way
we're heading I drop my fix in the
middle I draw from the 210 or wherever
they told me to the VOR and I slap my
right race track pattern over that and
you can see now I can visually see it if
I'm actually on this North heading how
would you make this entry well you'd
make a direct entry right you're heading
right into it make a nice right hand
turn
that's not so bad let's look at another
one here together imagine you receive
this radio call Skyhawk 23 Mike Zulu
hold Northeast of the Ocala VOR on the
zero three zero radial maintain six
thousand expect further clearance in two
zero minutes same thing I'm on North I
slap my uh my VOR right down there in
the middle
zero three zero I'm going to draw from
zero three zero in to my fix into my VOR
remember that's my inbound I'm now going
to place my nice beautiful right race
track pattern down there and boom I've
got it right so you see now how would
you like to enter this one here well
if you said teardrop
it's a good answer if you said parallel
that could work too technically it'd be
a teardrop entry however
parallel would have worked as well in
this case again no one's going to fault
this one's actually kind of right on
that cusp on that verge of what it could
be so let's just do one more here
together let's see if you can figure
this one out let me give you the radio
call Skyhawk 2 3 Mike zoo hold Northwest
of the Ocala VOR on the three three zero
radial maintains six thousand expect
further clearance in two zero minutes
I'm going to zip it for a second leave
this on your screen and see if you can
figure it out
all right I'm coming back so if you need
more time pause this video here let's
work through it uh together now what's
step number one put your fix in the
middle what's my next step I'm gonna
draw a line from my three three zero to
my VOR don't let dyslexia sneak in I
know we just did zero three zero now
we're doing three three zero you then
need to slap your right race track
pattern down and now do you see why this
one is a much better parallel entry on
the previous one we said teardrop Peril
it's actually a teardrop this one
teardrop's really not even an option you
can see the only option with this is to
make that parallel entry Fly to Your VOR
fly it parallel right and then work your
way back around to get your nice
parallel entry does that make sense that
help you quite a bit with that listen
holding patterns I I know they're
complex I I know they're unique
sometimes but one thing we do here at
away is hopefully you've realized this
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