Helimutt;
Had a couple of holds over the years on the North Sea. Nearly died of shock in the early hours of one morning when diverting to Luton (now vip charter not NS) in grot weather when I got an approach time of 05:35z. Time then was 04:40. My boss in the a/c ahead got an EAT of 05:25.
A long and boring hold session at BNN followed. When intercepting the localiser the ATCO said "How fast can you fly this approach? because we're going out b***dy quick." As I shut down on the Signature ramp the boss walked up to the aircraft and pointed to the tower. The bottom 50' was all that was visible
I hadn't flown 6 holds on the trot since the days of f
ing up in the simulator when the trainers let me get on with it because the paper trace was so pretty.