Mastering Holds in IFR Flying

Mastering Holds in IFR Flying is an e-book devoted to making you a safer pilot. You are in turbulent IFR conditions and have just been given a clearance to hold. You can hardly hold on to the yoke and a pencil simultaneously, let alone make a reasonable sketch of the holding pattern that you should use! This e-book describes the easy way to visualize and fly your holding pattern just using your Directional Gyro. After you practice what we describe here, you will “see” the correct holding pattern right on your DG and know exactly how to enter and fly it within 15 seconds of receipt of your clearance, no matter what your clearance entails!

The book contains three chapters:

Chapter 1
Three Secrets for Visualizing Hold Configurations

In this chapter you learn the three secrets for visualizing hold configurations, with graphic examples of what you expect to "see" on your DG and why.

Chapter 2
How to enter and fly the holding pattern

In this chapter you learn how to enter and fly the holding pattern that you are "visualizing" on your DG.

Chapter 3
Practice using the lessons learned to master holds

In this chapter you have 27 exercises to practice what you learned in chapters 1 and 2. When you are finished with these, you will wonder why flying holding patterns in clearances given to you by ATC always used to seem like a chore!