Take the radial number and find where it is if you put the plane on a compass. Nose to right wing: tear drop Nose to left wing: parallel Behind the plane: direct For left turns basically the same, just tear drop and parallel are switched.
Nose to right wing is 90 degrees. Same for Nose to left. A hold entry is based on 70/110 degrees. Your suggestion isn't suitable for a flight test or training. In practice, in the real-world, good advice.
Whoa Nelly that always annoyed me about exams. Does heading 180 qualify as an East or West bound course for the purposes of selecting an altitude for flight planning? I use to know. Now all I remember is that it was a really big deal that I knew it once upon a time. In practice, I just know that if I’m flying in a general north or south bound heading, I’ll be more mindful of opposite direction traffic.
And just like that....the lightbulb moment I was waiting to experience on this concept finally happened....thank you Jason...your heading indicator method is fantastic
Thank you Jason, back in 2015 my friend and I watched your videos to learn more out of the ground shcool. Now my friend became a flight instructor and I'm working in an airline company. After so many years I almost forgot the holding procedure ,so thanks again for this great video ,really helpful.
OMG this was the easiest way that anyone could explain how to understand and do the right hold pattern, no finger, paper or anything and explanation was done. Thank you very much.
I've been working on my instrument rating over the past year and have been struggling with identifying holds quickly and properly entering them. I have heard of a bunch of techniques but this one is really sticking with me. Just drawing the line to the center and finishing the race track is really helping. I'm training near the Detroit Bravo airspace so I don't have much time to mentally set up my holds and this video perfect for me. This just might help me pass!
I've been sitting in Instrument ground all quarter and couldn't figure this stuff out. You're a god among men and you've helped me through all of my ratings thus far, bless up!
I’ve been struggling with holds for what seems like forever. This 8 minute video just made it click for me! Thank you so much for creating content like this!
OMG, thank you so much Jason, this is by far the best way to know which entry to make, soo easy to picture in quick situations in the cockpit. Thanks for making me a better Pilot.
Thank you so much Jason! It just wasn't clicking in the ground school I'm in, your way shows me not only how to successfully answer it on the test but also in real life which was lacking in the ground school. (Not MzeroA Ground school BTW :( maybe I should rethink my decisions)
That actually helps a lot - stick your fix in the middle - center the needle to head direct, read the radial and fly that heading, then find the desired inbound course and draw a mental racetrack around it to determine what entry makes staying on the protected side easiest. Mind blown.
Am a really rusty pilot, have Private with multi engine rating, have not flown since 2017 my Cessna 172 crashed September of that year, but am thinking of getting back flying just from watching your training info.
Good video, cleared some doubts I had about holding patterns and how to enter them. I’m starting IFR training soon and this helps me understand the topic better.
Jason, every instructor I've ever had, has some really good memory tips to help students or upgrading pilots to easily grasp procedures. Yours are especially great. Keep up the excellent work. (Oh, BTW, you need to fix that misspelled graphic with the word "parallel" spelled 'parellel.)
Thanks Jason. Really nice! Next time you do this I think it would help if you made a note that the diagram shows your heading AFTER you've changed course and are now aimed at the VOR. Maybe you could even show on the heading indicator a change in direction toward the VOR after the ATC directive and then do this awesome trick. Also, when ATC says "hold SOUTHWEST", you don't have to even think about where NSEW you are because ATC is giving you the radial that is SW and you are always doing a R hand turn. That used to trip me up--trying to figure out if I was holding in the correct compass position--don't need to even think about it.
This video is about the same as the 2012 one, except for some front-end explanations. I wish you'd show the "pencil" method where you'd put a line across the whole card and show the 40 degrees part to define the direct, parallel or teardrop entry. Great explanations.
This was very helpful! Thank you so much! I was wondering if you could teach a best practice video of flying the outbound leg, finding the proper heading using the VOR instrument, and timing the outbound leg not knowing the wind, all while managing altitude and the other flight instruments.
What about DME hold, it's seems to be more difficult and as well there's when examiners kinda "trick" the students when they're doing the procedures. If you can do a video covering that, would be great 👍
DME hold is identical, you just fly the inbound and outbound legs for a distance instead of a time. Standard hold is 1 minute inbound. You adjust your turns and oubound leg to ensure you're flying a straight line inbound for 1 minute to the fix. For a DME hold you don't have to adjust the outbound leg since you fly the assigned distance from the fix regardless of winds, but you still need to adjust your turn times to keep your legs straight. But this video is about entries - and the entries are the same for timed and DME holds, you always cross the fix and then make the appropriate turn for the angle to your inbound leg.
Maybe I have been lucky in my career... sorry but in 4200 hours i have been asked to hold maybe a dozen times. Most of the time ATC will slow you down enroute in order to keep you from holding or I have listened ahead on the radio and asked to slow down. All of them have been when flying in the eastern corridor. Good skill to practice and good video but I just honestly have not been in many holds.
When ATC needed me to hold near Hayward Field the controller told me "Got some traffic ahead of you, I'm going to put you in a box pattern" and then he called the turns for me! I thought to myself - what an easy hold ;)
Tim, in my 2000 hours I have been asked to hold ONE time. It's interesting that it just happened to be when a instructor was with me on an IFR flight, and the destination weather was really bad (at or below minimums for the precision approach) . I would NOT have flown in those conditions by myself, so maybe that's why I 'almost never' get assigned a hold?? ;-)
I was put into 3 holds during the 1 month of my IFR training. My instructor told me what you are saying - you’ll probably see one or two ever and by the time my training was done I had executed 3 assigned holds in actual.
It's a skill you need to have in your back pocket, but it's true that in the U.S. true assigned holds are pretty rare. However, in the event of an emergency or an airport ground stop, etc, they'll throw every approaching plane into a hold until they get it sorted. It happens. It's just rare that you end up in that stack especially for GA pilots that don't fly in the system multiple times a day. Unfortunately that means we have to learn it for the checkride and probably practice it on IPCs, but it's virtually guaranteed that if we actually get one, we'll be rusty on how to fly it.
This video is responsible for about 10 points on my written test. Thanks, Jason.
Really, I need help
Jason, you're a natural born teacher. You make everything easy to understand.
i totally agree!
Totally
Easiest technique and most applicable to the cockpit imo 👏🏼
Take the radial number and find where it is if you put the plane on a compass.
Nose to right wing: tear drop
Nose to left wing: parallel
Behind the plane: direct
For left turns basically the same, just tear drop and parallel are switched.
thanks that helps a lot!
Nose to right wing is 90 degrees. Same for Nose to left. A hold entry is based on 70/110 degrees. Your suggestion isn't suitable for a flight test or training. In practice, in the real-world, good advice.
Whoa Nelly that always annoyed me about exams.
Does heading 180 qualify as an East or West bound course for the purposes of selecting an altitude for flight planning? I use to know. Now all I remember is that it was a really big deal that I knew it once upon a time. In practice, I just know that if I’m flying in a general north or south bound heading, I’ll be more mindful of opposite direction traffic.
@@xpeterson Actually altitude planning is not based on your heading, it's base on your Track (Course).
And just like that....the lightbulb moment I was waiting to experience on this concept finally happened....thank you Jason...your heading indicator method is fantastic
I mean.. I swear I've seen a few of these videos with similar words, but I'm right there with you. It only clicked during this video
This mans videos got me through the private phase of training. Jason, you’re a real MVP in the aviation community.
Thanks for your support!
@@MzeroAFlightTraining I will gladly be purchasing your instrument ground course!
This made unpublished holds so clear. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
This is by far the best explanation I've found yet. I'm sure everybody is different but this is the one that clicked for me.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad we could help!
Best holding pattern explanation i’ve seen so far. Thank you!!
Not only do you explain it in a way that you can understand, but I won't forget this either. Thanks Jason!
Thank you Jason, back in 2015 my friend and I watched your videos to learn more out of the ground shcool. Now my friend became a flight instructor and I'm working in an airline company. After so many years I almost forgot the holding procedure ,so thanks again for this great video ,really helpful.
That is awesome!
OMG this was the easiest way that anyone could explain how to understand and do the right hold pattern, no finger, paper or anything and explanation was done. Thank you very much.
Soooperb explanation, I am an Air Traffic Controller from Pakistan, never got such an easy description on this topic, very nice.
I've been working on my instrument rating over the past year and have been struggling with identifying holds quickly and properly entering them. I have heard of a bunch of techniques but this one is really sticking with me. Just drawing the line to the center and finishing the race track is really helping. I'm training near the Detroit Bravo airspace so I don't have much time to mentally set up my holds and this video perfect for me. This just might help me pass!
I've been sitting in Instrument ground all quarter and couldn't figure this stuff out. You're a god among men and you've helped me through all of my ratings thus far, bless up!
I’ve been struggling with holds for what seems like forever. This 8 minute video just made it click for me! Thank you so much for creating content like this!
Happy it helped! Thanks for watching!
OMG, thank you so much Jason, this is by far the best way to know which entry to make, soo easy to picture in quick situations in the cockpit. Thanks for making me a better Pilot.
actually a very simple and perfect explanation, been struggling with this but now i understand!
You know what actually matters, “in the cockpit 100kts right next to cfi”.... best video for holding patterns being visualized in flight deck.
This is by far the best explanation I found, you are a great teacher, thank you!
Thank you so much Jason! It just wasn't clicking in the ground school I'm in, your way shows me not only how to successfully answer it on the test but also in real life which was lacking in the ground school. (Not MzeroA Ground school BTW :( maybe I should rethink my decisions)
That actually helps a lot - stick your fix in the middle - center the needle to head direct, read the radial and fly that heading, then find the desired inbound course and draw a mental racetrack around it to determine what entry makes staying on the protected side easiest. Mind blown.
my go to video for entry holdings, thanks Jason!
Jason you are the best! Perfectly understood the holding!
The best explanation in UA-cam god bless you
Timeless...and so clearly explained. Thanks Jason!
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! Helped me understand how to visualize the holding pattern and entry while flying.
Glad we could help! Thanks for watching, Chris!
This finally has made sense to me. Been thinking about it off and on for a long time. This video is extremely helpful. Thanks : )
Glad it was helpful!
starting to work on my IFR. This really made it much easier to visualize if I were in the cockpit, great stuff!
😍 love you! Please some videos about IFR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AGAIN
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, Vittoria!
Great lesson. Different from what my instructor taught and much easier to learn and visualize. Another great tidbit to help me pass my checkride
Jason is the GOAT
Great tip on holding pattern entry! Made it so easy. Thanks Jason.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
This is waaaaay to good to be true. You just made it so easy
This is fantastic! I was trying to get VOR holds to solidify in my head and this video did it for me! Thanks Jason!!!
Am a really rusty pilot, have Private with multi engine rating, have not flown since 2017 my Cessna 172 crashed September of that year, but am thinking of getting back flying just from watching your training info.
Good video, cleared some doubts I had about holding patterns and how to enter them. I’m starting IFR training soon and this helps me understand the topic better.
That was seriously a great way to explain entry! I will be working this info into my toolkit! Thank you!!
This is fantastic! This works better than the “thumb” method for me.
Glad we could help! Thanks for watching, Todd!
Jason, every instructor I've ever had, has some really good memory tips to help students or upgrading pilots to easily grasp procedures. Yours are especially great. Keep up the excellent work. (Oh, BTW, you need to fix that misspelled graphic with the word "parallel" spelled 'parellel.)
Thanks for the kind words and feedback, Stephen!
Very, very nice explained. Thank you very much.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
*explanarion was amazing! The tip was a little confusing tho, I think I’ll use the thumb one instead. Great video as always Jason!*
I love the way you teach, just wish the MzeroA wasn't a monthly fee and so expensive. I used you guys for my PPL.
hmmm that is probably the best way I have seen to do this in the cockpit. Nice!
yeah , best CFI IIIII and whatever else , ever ! Hands down !!
This helps so much. Thanks Jason!
Great explanation from a cockpit view without chart in front of you.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Jason for the tips! Nobody has explained it this way before. You might want to share this with Jeppesen! 😀
///RONTOURAGE /// no problem! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for this very informative video, Jason! Keep them coming!
So happy to find ur video! Today is my IR check! Keep it up!
Thanks Jason. Really nice! Next time you do this I think it would help if you made a note that the diagram shows your heading AFTER you've changed course and are now aimed at the VOR. Maybe you could even show on the heading indicator a change in direction toward the VOR after the ATC directive and then do this awesome trick. Also, when ATC says "hold SOUTHWEST", you don't have to even think about where NSEW you are because ATC is giving you the radial that is SW and you are always doing a R hand turn. That used to trip me up--trying to figure out if I was holding in the correct compass position--don't need to even think about it.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Love this guy's methodology!!!
Phenomenal explanation! Thank you sir.
Thank you! I am working on holds and this is super helpful, will try on today’s flight.
well explained Jason.
That just made holding entries easy! Thanks!
Thank you very much, I used this in my simulator interview and i passed
Great great video. Not too much like this on UA-cam. Thanks, simple explanation 👍🏼
This helped me so much! Thank you!
Im so glad! Thanks for watching!
Awesome Instructor.
Excellent, nicely done. Thank you.
That made it very simple to understand, thank you
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Best one I've seen so far. Thank You...
This is so helpful!! Thank you!!
This video is about the same as the 2012 one, except for some front-end explanations. I wish you'd show the "pencil" method where you'd put a line across the whole card and show the 40 degrees part to define the direct, parallel or teardrop entry. Great explanations.
Thank you Jason ✌️
Great explanation of of holdings
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching, Mohammed!
This made it so easy!
Great! Thanks for watching!
Jason question for you, any helicopter training video in the future? Or are you strictly fixed wing...
This was very helpful! Thank you so much! I was wondering if you could teach a best practice video of flying the outbound leg, finding the proper heading using the VOR instrument, and timing the outbound leg not knowing the wind, all while managing altitude and the other flight instruments.
That's all covered in his online ground school for instrument.
Great job, Jason.
Thanks.....Nice video!! Clear explaination!
This is a lot better than other tutorials. Im just confuse as always the location of the plane.
good job again and again....
Amazing explaining
Great video. Thanks!
great technique
Nicely explained
Thanks a lot. You make it easy to understand
Hey man excellent video thanks for the teaching everything was really clear.
This is the best. Thank you very much.
dude!! thank you, now i can take this to the air!
Thank you , Thank you , Thank you.
What about DME hold, it's seems to be more difficult and as well there's when examiners kinda "trick" the students when they're doing the procedures. If you can do a video covering that, would be great 👍
DME hold is identical, you just fly the inbound and outbound legs for a distance instead of a time. Standard hold is 1 minute inbound. You adjust your turns and oubound leg to ensure you're flying a straight line inbound for 1 minute to the fix. For a DME hold you don't have to adjust the outbound leg since you fly the assigned distance from the fix regardless of winds, but you still need to adjust your turn times to keep your legs straight. But this video is about entries - and the entries are the same for timed and DME holds, you always cross the fix and then make the appropriate turn for the angle to your inbound leg.
wow. Thanks a lot man. You really did save me in this video lesson. Especially on the heading indicator technique. :D
GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU!
Thanks for good info Jason. Good job
You did a great job !
Amazing! So helpful
Thanks for watching!
Finally I've got it! Thank you for such a great video!
Nice Job Jason
Genius technique
Jason - typo at 1:44. Parallel. Cheers - love the videos.
Maybe I have been lucky in my career... sorry but in 4200 hours i have been asked to hold maybe a dozen times. Most of the time ATC will slow you down enroute in order to keep you from holding or I have listened ahead on the radio and asked to slow down. All of them have been when flying in the eastern corridor. Good skill to practice and good video but I just honestly have not been in many holds.
When ATC needed me to hold near Hayward Field the controller told me "Got some traffic ahead of you, I'm going to put you in a box pattern" and then he called the turns for me! I thought to myself - what an easy hold ;)
Tim, in my 2000 hours I have been asked to hold ONE time. It's interesting that it just happened to be when a instructor was with me on an IFR flight, and the destination weather was really bad (at or below minimums for the precision approach) . I would NOT have flown in those conditions by myself, so maybe that's why I 'almost never' get assigned a hold?? ;-)
I was put into 3 holds during the 1 month of my IFR training. My instructor told me what you are saying - you’ll probably see one or two ever and by the time my training was done I had executed 3 assigned holds in actual.
It's a skill you need to have in your back pocket, but it's true that in the U.S. true assigned holds are pretty rare. However, in the event of an emergency or an airport ground stop, etc, they'll throw every approaching plane into a hold until they get it sorted. It happens. It's just rare that you end up in that stack especially for GA pilots that don't fly in the system multiple times a day. Unfortunately that means we have to learn it for the checkride and probably practice it on IPCs, but it's virtually guaranteed that if we actually get one, we'll be rusty on how to fly it.
Thanks Capt
Great and practically useful video! Thank you :-)
This really helped , I got it thank you
Really helpful 👍
awesome hint, you got a new subscriber!!
Thank you!