Triple Drift Correction | Holding Patterns with Wind

When conducting a holding procedure, it's important to take account for the crosswind on both the inbound and outbound legs. We take triple the correction used inbound, and apply that to the outbound leg. It's a strange concept, but here is why we do it, and how it looks from the cockpit.

[highnitro]

I learned this concept from a navy pilot in a CFI academy. really nice to see this posted for the world to see... one of the greatest rules of thumb for the IFR pilot!

[Dub]

I am a ii and I remember teaching this until one day in the plane I gave my student a 2 minute leg and all of the sudden the 3x wind correction took us way further into the hold so when we rolled onto the inbound leg we were far outside of it. I realized that day that this only works on 1 minute legs and it also doesn’t work on DME holds. But nonetheless very useful info and you can apply the concepts and adapt it to any hold

[Derry]

Being a student pilot this so important for me and I have just finished Lnav vnav or Lpv Lp approch video on your channel grate for me.

[MichaelHazel-nt]

This video helped a ton, I was not taking into account the wind correction in the turns. This makes much more sense now

[ShannonNewbold]

triple course correction, never thought about that, but makes total sense.

[ddthompson]

Instrument checkride next week and the one thing I'm still extremely nervous about is holding!

[JosephHHHo]

If the wind is the other way, would the GPS-AP end up making a higher than standard rate turn on the other side or would it preemptively reduce the turn rate of the first turn so a standard rate turn will work on the second turn?

[jafarelmetioui]

LARS

Left turn hold you add to outbound leg for your wind correction

Right turns in holds you subtract from outbound leg

[alk]

I’ve always wondered why a hold is done the way it’s done. Is there really no simpler way to keep an airplane within a defined area of airspace?

[GochinECHM]

How do you put the track log in the Garmin1000?

[Shaneepe]

That was supercool! I had no clue how gps “cheated”

[Mr.Legend]

1:59 What is 96 heading determined by? How did you calculate that it would give a 10 degree correction?

[walter]

In a nutshell:
When hand flying use triple wind correction (x3 of inbound WCA on outbound) on straight legs and standard rate turns to create a bike chain shaped hold
When on autopilot, the FD will do the opposite and not use standard rate turns but no wind correction on legs to give a perfect oval shaped hold

[naosay]

That is how the AP handles it, but what if you have G500 or G1000 without an AP? How do you know what rate turn you should execute without indication? Great job btw1