Video Tip: Entering a Hold with ForeFlight Hold Advisor

If weather or an ATC delay requires you to fly a holding pattern, you can use ForeFlight’s Hold Advisor feature to add the details of the hold to the flight plan. If you receive a clearance to hold at a waypoint currently entered in your flight plan, tap that waypoint ID in the Route Editor and select the Hold function. You can then enter the details of the holding clearance, including the inbound or outbound course, either a time or distance, left or right turns, altitude, speeds restrictions, and an expected further clearance time.

This video tip appears in Sporty’s Flying with ForeFlight training course, which features more than three hours of in-depth training on how to use aviation’s most widely used EFB app.

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