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Holding pattern reporting
At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix,
or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till you have turned and crossed the fix again? My instructor and I disagree on this. The only thing I can find is in the AIM, 5-3-7-f which states "Pilots should report to ATC the time and altitude/flight level at which the aircraft reaches the clearance limit and report leaving the clearance limit." To me that means you report upon crossing the fix the first time. Or is this a difference between what the AIM says and what actual practice is? |
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"Yossarian" wrote in message
. 97.142... At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For separation purposes, ATC presumably only needs to know that you're there; I can't think of any reason they'd care about the details of your maneuvering. So I'd report upon reaching the holding fix. --Gary |
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I learned as soon as you cross the fix you report established and reconfirm
your altitude. This makes most sense, because all ATC needs to know is that you are in the right place at the right altitude. All the pretty stuff about entries and timed legs etc only concerns our pride as pilots - as far as ATC is concerned, if you can stay within the protected airspace (which is huge, for GA planes) and maintain assigned altitude, the hold has done its job. G Faris |
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AIM 5-3-3 says that the "time and altitude of flight level upon reaching a
holding fix or point to which cleared" should be made without ATC request. In some cases, ATC may be waiting for your report of crossing the holding fix to enter the hold before issuing a clearance to another aircraft...if you wait until you have completed an entry, or a turn in the hold, you are just screwing up the timing for someone else. Bob Gardner "Yossarian" wrote in message . 97.142... At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till you have turned and crossed the fix again? My instructor and I disagree on this. The only thing I can find is in the AIM, 5-3-7-f which states "Pilots should report to ATC the time and altitude/flight level at which the aircraft reaches the clearance limit and report leaving the clearance limit." To me that means you report upon crossing the fix the first time. Or is this a difference between what the AIM says and what actual practice is? |
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What is the "time". "Now" that is, the time of my utterance, seems
sufficient. What am I missing in your AIM quote? Bob Gardner wrote: AIM 5-3-3 says that the "time and altitude of flight level upon reaching a holding fix or point to which cleared" should be made without ATC request. In some cases, ATC may be waiting for your report of crossing the holding fix to enter the hold before issuing a clearance to another aircraft...if you wait until you have completed an entry, or a turn in the hold, you are just screwing up the timing for someone else. Bob Gardner "Yossarian" wrote in message . 97.142... At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till you have turned and crossed the fix again? My instructor and I disagree on this. The only thing I can find is in the AIM, 5-3-7-f which states "Pilots should report to ATC the time and altitude/flight level at which the aircraft reaches the clearance limit and report leaving the clearance limit." To me that means you report upon crossing the fix the first time. Or is this a difference between what the AIM says and what actual practice is? __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Bill Plummer, BBN 1971 - 1980 |
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you're supposed to say the number of minutes past the hour that you cross
the fix. "cessna 1234 seal beach 37 [minutes past the hour] holding at 4000" Stubby wrote in : What is the "time". "Now" that is, the time of my utterance, seems sufficient. What am I missing in your AIM quote? |
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Smart ass
Stubby wrote: What is the "time". "Now" that is, the time of my utterance, seems sufficient. What am I missing in your AIM quote? Bob Gardner wrote: AIM 5-3-3 says that the "time and altitude of flight level upon reaching a holding fix or point to which cleared" should be made without ATC request. In some cases, ATC may be waiting for your report of crossing the holding fix to enter the hold before issuing a clearance to another aircraft...if you wait until you have completed an entry, or a turn in the hold, you are just screwing up the timing for someone else. Bob Gardner "Yossarian" wrote in message . 97.142... At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till you have turned and crossed the fix again? My instructor and I disagree on this. The only thing I can find is in the AIM, 5-3-7-f which states "Pilots should report to ATC the time and altitude/flight level at which the aircraft reaches the clearance limit and report leaving the clearance limit." To me that means you report upon crossing the fix the first time. Or is this a difference between what the AIM says and what actual practice is? __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Bill Plummer, BBN 1971 - 1980 |
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"Now" is fine, providing that you are a good enough multitasker to be on top
of any required turn. However, because timing is one of the requirements of a holding pattern (adjust outbound to make inbound one minute), "now" suffers in comparison to "at oh-five past the hour," which should trigger a stop-watch hack by the pilot. "Now" certainly serves the purpose of letting the controller clear the next guy. Bob Gardner "Stubby" wrote in message ... What is the "time". "Now" that is, the time of my utterance, seems sufficient. What am I missing in your AIM quote? Bob Gardner wrote: AIM 5-3-3 says that the "time and altitude of flight level upon reaching a holding fix or point to which cleared" should be made without ATC request. In some cases, ATC may be waiting for your report of crossing the holding fix to enter the hold before issuing a clearance to another aircraft...if you wait until you have completed an entry, or a turn in the hold, you are just screwing up the timing for someone else. Bob Gardner "Yossarian" wrote in message . 97.142... At what point do you report holding to ATC? Upon reaching the holding fix, or when you are established in the hold and again crossing the fix? For example, your direction of flight makes a parallel entry appropriate. You cross the fix and turn outbound. Should you report then or wait till you have turned and crossed the fix again? My instructor and I disagree on this. The only thing I can find is in the AIM, 5-3-7-f which states "Pilots should report to ATC the time and altitude/flight level at which the aircraft reaches the clearance limit and report leaving the clearance limit." To me that means you report upon crossing the fix the first time. Or is this a difference between what the AIM says and what actual practice is? __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Bill Plummer, BBN 1971 - 1980 |
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Bob Gardner wrote:
"Now" is fine, providing that you are a good enough multitasker to be on top of any required turn. However, because timing is one of the requirements of a holding pattern (adjust outbound to make inbound one minute), "now" suffers in comparison to "at oh-five past the hour," which should trigger a stop-watch hack by the pilot. "Now" certainly serves the purpose of letting the controller clear the next guy. Do controllers put that time into a computer which assists in separation? Are we assuming VFR? |
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Sorry about the delay in replying. The controller need not enter the time or
even think about it...timing the holding pattern is the pilot's responsibility. If the controller's flow plan has another plane approaching/descending to the same holding fix, all he needs is the report of entering. I think the time report is just for the audio tape. And, of course, there is no such thing as a VFR holding pattern. In my experience, if ATC wants me to kill time when VFR they will tell me to stay clear of the airspace that I wanted to enter and circle. Where and how is up to me. I remember one night way back when, when I was arriving at Reno for the air races and it was after dark. Everybody was VFR, and ATC had us all hanging around in the vicinity of the VOR with no other separation than that we imposed on ourselves...lotta plane-to-plane chatter about altitudes and general direction from the VOR. Bob Gardner "Stubby" wrote in message ... Bob Gardner wrote: "Now" is fine, providing that you are a good enough multitasker to be on top of any required turn. However, because timing is one of the requirements of a holding pattern (adjust outbound to make inbound one minute), "now" suffers in comparison to "at oh-five past the hour," which should trigger a stop-watch hack by the pilot. "Now" certainly serves the purpose of letting the controller clear the next guy. Do controllers put that time into a computer which assists in separation? Are we assuming VFR? |
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