Keef - is your parallel entry correct? Seems sensible to me, but it's different to how i've seen it drawn in books. Thom's book 5 says to fly to the fix, turn onto an outbound heading parallel to the inbound track, hold the heading for a minute (+/- wind correction), turn in the direction of the holding side through more than 180 degrees and return to the fix. Then enter the hold.
Just to confuse things (or myself) further, I think of two types of direct entry - if you turn through 180 degrees or more to take up the outbound track, then begin the turn as soon as you reach the fix. If you need to turn through less than 180 degrees, then you hold your inbound heading past the fix - the turn to the outbound leg should take 1 minute, so if you only need to turn 90 degrees (which takes 30 seconds in a rate 1 turn) then you hold past the fix for a further 30 seconds. Turn through 135 degrees then hold heading for 15 seconds and turn for 45, etc.
I know you've got an IR while i'm just an aspirant IMC, so tell me if i'm overcomplicating things. I'm trying to get all this stuff to stick in my head, because if i cannot think it through while sat in front of a computer with a cup of coffee then i'm never going to be able to do it while flying an aeroplane
Now, can anybody give me an easy way of working out wind corrections in the hold...
