So I was flying today from KABQ to KAEG in Cessna 172 with Garmin 433W. I entered and loaded a flight plan into Garmin. I was first doing some touch and Goes at KAEG because they (ATX) would not let me do a practice ILS-22 approach and then requested a practice hold and ILS at Ranway 3, but I encountered two problems:1) I could not orient myself properly on the HSI to use it for hold at ABQ VOR so I was flying the hold by looking on the GPS screen: I don’t understand what was I supposed to do (I switched CDI to ILS and dialed VOR ; 2) while in the hold, I was trying to load KABQ approaches but the Garmin would not let me (it was only offering KAEG approaches even when I tried to bypass the flight plan by pressing Direct (after pressing direct button, Garmin would still offer only KAEG approaches). So I gave up and after hold landed visually on Ranway 8 at KABQ.
What was I doing wrong and what should I have done differently?
What was I doing wrong and what should I have done differently?