Holding

[IFflyer]

Hey Everyone, The ATC Just requested me to hold somewhere over Singapore. Anyways
My question Is that Is there anyway I can make my plane follow the holding pattern? Or should I always manually do It?

[Hamza.N]

At the moment, no theres no way to have autopilot follow the holding pattern.

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Unable to find a feature request regarding this.

However i have found these 2:

Autopilot Holding Mode

Holding Mode This idea is a additional Autopilot mode. Once it’s activated, your airplane holds in a standard holding pattern, at the present position. This would help, in case you need more time for the planing of your approach, in case you’re approaching a busy airport and the controller asks you to enter a holding pattern or in case something important happens in real life during your flight. I know, there is a similar feature suggestion from 2015. However, since this is 2 years old and alr…

LNAV enters holding pattern if flight plan runs out

This would be extremely useful; If your flightplans ends, or something dodgy happens with it, LNAV enters you into a left wards hold over present position. Could prevent horrific overshoots/crashed into mountain and seems a rather neat and simple way to prevent issues like this happening. In the event of an oversleep you would wake up to your aircraft holding over your destination, or in a death spiral to a crowded airport below with no fuel, but either way you will reach your destination. You…

[IFflyer]

Alright! :) Thanks for your help.
Good news Is that I’m doing with the holding now lol.

[Kuba_Jaroszczyk]

I have experienced a holding pattern once or twice as I don’t usually approach busy airspace’s, but a loop was formed on the Map, therefore you should press the NAV button for the aircraft to automatically follow the glide. ( I only am thinking and it really depends how long you are holding a pattern. I may be wrong ).

[Flying_Pencil]

@Kuba_Jaroszczyk that sadly doesn´t work…

[IFflyer]

The NAV button will follow the flightplan and not the glide unfortunately. :(

[Kuba_Jaroszczyk]

Yeah. I don’t think there is any other way around I’m afraid. ;)

[IFflyer]

Alright! Thank you all for your help. 😊🌺.

[Tim_B]

There’s no set “path” for the plane to follow, in the sense of GPS coordinates or anything. You may notice that the size can change intermittently. This is based on your current speed. Pattern holding legs (“inbound” and “outbound”) are based on times, à la a one-minute hold, for example.

Here more specifics from an actual pilot (which I am not):

How to fly a holding pattern

Since there is no other tutorial on the subject, and that’s what I’m studying right now in my IR training. I figured I’d put something up for you guys. [image] Here is an example of a standard holding pattern. The inbound leg will be the leg that has the holding Fix on it. The outbound leg will be the one on the opposite parallel side. This will come in useful when we get into diffrent entry types. The basics of a holding pattern. When instructed to enter a holding pattern you will either…

(Before anyone says “Off topic!”, no, he wasn’t specifically asking this question, but I think this is close enough and it doesn’t seem that a little extra info will hurt. The forum will survive.)