robertb
Pre-Flight
Hello,
A buddy of mine is working on his IR. His plane is equipped with a Garmin GNS430W. While the goal is to prevent a certain problem from occurring, I know (from personal experience) that it likely will occur. Knowing how to fix the pilot's error is the topic here.
Let's say you are doing the VOR-A approach at Ramona Airport (KRNM) for checkride purposes. A DPE may ask the pilot to hold at JLI for a lap or two before making the approach.
With the approach loaded into the flight plan and making the proper entry to get establish inbound, a pilot may forget to hit the OBS button on the GPS to suspend waypoint sequencing (been there, done that). So when flying inbound on the JLI R-090 (heading 240) and passing over JLI, the GPS will sequence to FEXDE. While the pilot is making the left 180 degree turn to stay in the holding pattern and realizing their error, is there a way to reactivate the racetrack holding pattern? I tried it the other day and all I could get it to do was give me a suggested holding pattern entry which took me back directly over JLI instead of allowing me to continue on the outbound 060 heading.
I hope that makes sense as it is not easy to explain in text.
Thanks in advance gang!
A buddy of mine is working on his IR. His plane is equipped with a Garmin GNS430W. While the goal is to prevent a certain problem from occurring, I know (from personal experience) that it likely will occur. Knowing how to fix the pilot's error is the topic here.
Let's say you are doing the VOR-A approach at Ramona Airport (KRNM) for checkride purposes. A DPE may ask the pilot to hold at JLI for a lap or two before making the approach.
With the approach loaded into the flight plan and making the proper entry to get establish inbound, a pilot may forget to hit the OBS button on the GPS to suspend waypoint sequencing (been there, done that). So when flying inbound on the JLI R-090 (heading 240) and passing over JLI, the GPS will sequence to FEXDE. While the pilot is making the left 180 degree turn to stay in the holding pattern and realizing their error, is there a way to reactivate the racetrack holding pattern? I tried it the other day and all I could get it to do was give me a suggested holding pattern entry which took me back directly over JLI instead of allowing me to continue on the outbound 060 heading.
I hope that makes sense as it is not easy to explain in text.
Thanks in advance gang!