Adding a hold in ForeFlight
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No. Not sure how basic it is since it's the more advanced certified equipment which paints random holds.
luvflyin
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Sure. I'm assuming you just want to do it so Foreflight will 'estimate' your enroute times and you don't want to 'navigate' by it. KVUO BTG BTG160008 BTG BTG160008 BTG. Rinse and repeat however many laps you think you wanna do and then put in the next Waypoint
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This works in Garmin Pilot as well, except there is one too many zeros in your example. Should be BTG16008.
Lando
Pre-takeoff checklist
I have a GTN 650 that is my primary, but it’s always nice to know how ForeFlight works as a backup, for situational awareness. I guess I just assumed that Foreflight would let me specify a hold like I can on the 650 and was surprised that it wasn’t an easy process. Thanks for the info!
Peter Anderson
Pre-takeoff checklist
I just draw the hold with my finger... simple and easy
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LOL! Irresistible!
The catch of course is you have to understand holding instructions.
luvflyin
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I’ll see your‘s. Everyone knows Garmin Pilot users are scared to get more than 99 miles from anywhere
You sure about that?
Grum.Man
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Sorry SDZ VOR is out of service. ;-)
It was a GPS hold, silly
...speaking of which...It was a GPS hold, silly
I was in an extended discussion about holds in a Facebook group. The original post was by a European checking on his answer to an EASA exam. The instruction was:
Hold is inbound 010° RH (1 min legs). Heading towards the fix is 030°.
There were a number of people who insisted it was parallel because they could not even imagine a holding instruction that was based on anything other than a radial - the the question absolutely positively must have meant the 010° radial.
Those of us who trained in the days of NDB remember the difference between holding on a radial and holding on a "bearing to." And the hold I drew could as easily have been "hold northwest...on the 160° course to" as "... on the 340° radial."