Holding Pattern

Orbit

The holding pattern shape is circle and the user can specify a radius for this circle. For Rotary wing assets, the radius should be within 200m and 10000m. For fixed wing assets, the radius should be between 0.25nm and 5nm.

Note:
These orbit radius values for Rotary wings/Fixed wings are validated and a message will pop up if user enters any wrong values. Aircraft can route in either counter clockwise direction or anti-clock-wise direction.

Linear

The holding pattern is in the shape of race track (ellipse). The Bearing (angle) needs to be specified between 0-360 degrees to create the linear holding pattern. The distance value is the distance between the two corner points of the holding pattern where for Rotary wing it should be between 1000m to 10000m & for Fixed wing it should be below 5nm.

Note:
If the distance value is 0nm it will use the default values
Fixed Wing 1 nm,
Rotary Wing 1500 m

Figure 8

The holding pattern is in the shape of the number 8