Along those same lines, I'm reminded of a discussion on an aviation forum some time ago. Someone told a story, perhaps apocryphal, of some sudden failure at an ATC facility where the radar displays all went blank and the controller told everyone on frequency to immediately enter a hold at their current position. The ensuing discussion centered mostly around people talking about how many pages they woulds have to go through on their FMS to get to the page for programming holds, an how long it would take to get the hold parameters entered, and how many miles they'd likely fly before they could get the airplane to enter a hold. Given that the underlying premise was a situation where it was a matter of flight safety to enter a hold ASAP, it didn't seem to occurs to anyone to hit the red button and start a constant level right turn, or if you weren't sure you could do that, select heading mode and turn the bug right, and *then* worry about establishing a holding waypoint, and leg distance, etc.