On 2006-03-08, Icebound wrote:

http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2006/AAB0601.pdf

To me this is a perfect example of how you can be totally mentally
prepared for one thing (entering a long hold, in this case) and then
be thrown a curveball by ATC. The pilots hand the mental bandwidth
to solve their immediate problem (by continuing their hold entry turn
on course for the approach) but they were no longer ahead of the plane.
I'd never quite been able to put my finger on it before, but that's
what it is -- you can't be ahead of the plane if you just got an
unexpected ATC instruction. The lesson here is that (except in case
of emergency or an "expedite" from ATC) you should probably keep
executing your old plan until you have a new plan fully formed. They
had passed "V1" on their hold entry and should have entered it no
matter what.

--
Ben Jackson

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