exiting a hold; question
With the upcoming airspace changes and traffic increases, traffic into Dubai is going to be holding a lot more. With that in mind, trying to sharpen the accuracy of spacing aircraft out of the hold, I have a question for drivers of both Boeing and Airbus.
I notice that when you are cleared out of the hold, you are usually on the outbound leg. If you get the instruction to "track direct to .....", the time taken to execute the instruction varies greatly. If you continue outbound for a minute, thats 4 miles too far then 4 miles back again, so we end up with 8 miles too many (we account for the time in the turn). We cannot account for you to continue outbound for 1 minute, as sometimes you turn in straight away, and then there is not enough spacing. An old trick I was taught as a youngster when vectoring was to give a heading instruction approximately in the direction of the waypoint, then once you were turning, give the instruction "track direct to .....". My question is: If you are in the holding pattern, get instruction "cancel hold, turn left heading 130" then "track direct to [the holding fix], resume the arrival", is that going to cause you problems?