Defecto, your comment is neither valid or helpful!!
In actual fact we aviated then communicated our observations to ATC who were happy for us to continue with our slightly longer than published hold, then we continued to navigate using a mode enabling me to concentrate on the big picture - such as how much fuel we had! It was deemed by myself as the Commander the safer option at that time owing to several other factors!
And as I said earlier it was backed up with raw data!!! We were also under RADAR control above our MSA, with neither Pilot transfixed on their ND's..
Thanks for the constructive comments, it would seem there are possibly many factors affecting the length of the hold, on this particular day we entered the hold at hold speed at FL80 (standard obviously set). The QNH was low if I remember correctly!
Again thanks for the feedback.
Last edited by endofeng; 10th Nov 2012 at 08:34.