Could you tell what sort of exercices you can practice in a flight sim ? That will be way less expensive than practising them in a real aircraft
However I could very well do that in my last hour buillding hours, if only I found a VOR outside controlled airspace.
A holding pattern is flown with 1 min or 1.5 min legs. Then the rate 1 turn is started just above the fix (correct me if i'm wrong)
I am still wondering what sort of heading precision you can get while being less than 2nm from your fix, and how precisely you can know you're just above your fix, given that my ops lessons taught me that markers were created specifically because fix like VORs and NDBs cannot tell you precisely when you're above them.