Comments on: IFR 10: Holding and Brain Freeze http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/ Software, aviation, electronics, economics, and other neat stuff. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: tangozulu http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-682 tangozulu Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:51:11 +0000 http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-682 Viennatech, I've been using this VOR method for some time now - since my private pilot rating. My instructors don't like it when I track "to" a VOR that's on the bottom half of the dial. So to be nice, I try to remember to flip headings to put it on top. Whatever works! Viennatech, I’ve been using this VOR method for some time now - since my private pilot rating. My instructors don’t like it when I track “to” a VOR that’s on the bottom half of the dial. So to be nice, I try to remember to flip headings to put it on top. Whatever works!

]]> By: viennatech http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-668 viennatech Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:02:04 +0000 http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-668 Hey TZ! Good to hear my brain gets stuck in the same place as yours when it comes to these. Take a look at this perspective. http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/VOR/vor.html I find this method is easier to understand but not easy to explain to the instructor. So I smile and nod when they explain it to me, then go back to this method as it makes sense.... YMMV. Hey TZ! Good to hear my brain gets stuck in the same place as yours when it comes to these. Take a look at this perspective.

http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/VOR/vor.html

I find this method is easier to understand but not easy to explain to the instructor. So I smile and nod when they explain it to me, then go back to this method as it makes sense…. YMMV.

]]> By: Sarah http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-647 Sarah Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:48:19 +0000 http://onesandzeros.tangozulu.biz/2009/03/14/ifr-10-holding-and-brain-freeze/#comment-647 When I was (recently) working on holds, my CFII suggested this simple java site to practice thinking: http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/hold_quiz/ And she offered the following mental shortcut - perhaps you've heard it. Try it, it is worth a few minutes puzzling it out to avoid brain freeze. Going to a hold, you're always inbound to a fix to begin. With the course *outbound* for the hold in mind, (that is, the "hold on the XXX radial" number) you can use a mechanical "trick" to immediately decide what entry to use. A picture, and a good explanation of the above is here: http://simfliteminnesota.blogspot.com/2006/10/creating-holding-clearances.html When I was (recently) working on holds, my CFII suggested this simple java site to practice thinking:

http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/hold_quiz/

And she offered the following mental shortcut - perhaps you’ve heard it. Try it, it is worth a few minutes puzzling it out to avoid brain freeze.

Going to a hold, you’re always inbound to a fix to begin. With the course *outbound* for the hold in mind, (that is, the “hold on the XXX radial” number) you can use a mechanical “trick” to immediately decide what entry to use.

A picture, and a good explanation of the above is here:

http://simfliteminnesota.blogspot.com/2006/10/creating-holding-clearances.html

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