Greetings, esteemed nipple-bat wearing bretheren.
I work for a UK national ATC provider, developing the simulators we use to train baby ATCOs to give you guys the faultless, under-priced service you all have come to love so much. A small question has arisen concerning turn-rates in the hold [terminal & en-route].
Do you all still use rate one turns during entry and holding, or are the modern FMS systems bank-angle limiting you all?
Our new simulator has all the big [and big-ish] jets limiting their bank angles, even in the terminal holds, and thus we are seeing some very large turns compared to what we were previously observing on our old system. I don't want to smack the software pukes up beside the head if they are in fact replicating reality, but if reality is radically different from the performance that was used to set all the procedures up, there may be Flight Safety issue involved as well. Tried asking the Radar Watchers, they all gave different answers. As many different a/c types as possible in the answers if you'd all be so kind.