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Old 2nd October 2003 | 21:33
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
Perhaps the answer is that you don't need to get holds precisely right. A hold is designed to have enough room around it to accommodate a 747 doing rate 1 turns at say 200kt.

A reasonable way, probably wrong though, is to intercept the inbound 360 radial, then turn onto a track of 360 and fly that to the beacon, and then your 1st rate 1 turn is 180 deg.

In practice, often, one has little idea of what the wind is doing up there and that's a much bigger source of imperfect holds.
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