For you Authorised Examiners/Check Airmen/ATC Standards guys out there, or you wizard dudes at Jepperson who eat this stuff for breakfast.
A point of PansOps came up today about the height to which you may descend on entry to a holding pattern. If the holding pattern has a minimum altitude specified of say 2000 feet, may you descend to that altitude during the entry procedure or do you have to wait until you are established in the hold after the entry procedure? (i.e. after the first station passage for a Sector 3 entry or after the second station passage after a Sector 1 or 2 entry.)
All I can read out of PansOps Vol 1 Part IV holding procedures implies that you can descend to the minimum holding altitude in the entry procedure, but I have a dissenter who believes that you must be "Established" in the hold.
Any ideas?
And BTW I do get out a bit, but probably not enough...
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